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Call for Greening to overhaul 'deeply flawed' Ofsted system

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2017
  • | CYP Now
A senior director of children's services (DCS) has called for Education Secretary Justine Greening to take urgent action to improve the way children's services are inspected, claiming the current system fails to aid improvement and is "phenomenally wasteful".

Children's trust boss steps down in wake of Ofsted report

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  • Thursday, February 8, 2018
  • | CYP Now
The chief executive of the second children's services department in England moved out of council control has announced her intention to step down from the role, just days after Ofsted published a report highlighting concerns about the pace of progress.

DfE considers intervening at West Midlands council

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  • Wednesday, September 23, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The Department for Education is considering whether to intervene in the running of a council's children's services that has been subject to three damning Ofsted reports in the past two years.

Rise in number of serious case reviews

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  • Thursday, October 29, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The number of serious case reviews (SCRs) conducted into child deaths, abuse and serious injuries has risen by more than 16 per cent in the past year.