Staffordshire City Council said nearly all of its feedback frominspectors was about how to improve safeguarding procedures. PeterTraves, director of children's services, said at last week's educationand social services conference: "Ninety per cent of the feedback wasabout safeguarding. In the early stages of children's services thatseems to be the key issue." He said this indicated a "hierarchy" withinthe five Every Child Matters outcomes. "They are saying that there's nopoint going into fantastic schemes about joined-up working if youhaven't got the safeguarding right."
Staffordshire is one of the first councils to undergo a joint areareview since the new regime was introduced in September.
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