John Coughlan, former director of children’s services at Hampshire County Council, has been appointed as commissioner to oversee improvements at Birmingham City Council, according to the notice.
It states that: “The council is failing to perform to an adequate standard in some or all of the SEND functions.”
The council was urged to improve 13 “significant” areas of weakness in its SEND provision following a local area SEND inspection carried out by Ofsted in June 2018.
A follow-up visit in May this year found that just one of the 13 areas had shown signs of improvement, the direction notice states.
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