rebuilding the reputation of children's services in Slough that it will be doing so from offices next door to those of the giant Lego corporation.
Assuming all goes to plan, Slough Children's Services Trust will have taken over running of children's services in the Berkshire town from the borough council on 30 September.
The transfer has been more than a year in the making after the government responded to a highly critical Ofsted inspection report in April 2014 by first stripping the council of responsibility for the service and then announcing last summer that Slough would become the second area to have children's social care run by an independent trust.
It will cover all aspects of children's services with the exception of youth work, education and strategic commissioning, which will be retained by the council. Children's centres will continue to be run by a third-party provider.
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