Decision

Direction issued to Calderdale Council

A direction to Calderdale Council due to its poor performance in children's social care services and a letter from DfE ending the direction.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 9 January 2014
• Last updated: 26 January 2016 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Final direction to Calderdale Council

PDF, 104 KB, 2 pages

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Letter to Calderdale Council, ending the direction

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Details

We issued a 2-year improvement notice on 8 April 2010, and a second improvement notice on 5 March 2012.

An Ofsted inspection of Calderdale Council’s child protection services report, published on 26 July 2013, assessed all sub-judgements as “inadequate”. Despite clear progress in many areas of the service, the inspectors felt that the council had failed to identify/address other problems, despite previously being alerted to those weaknesses.

Ministers issued a final direction on 28 October 2013 that required an independent review to report in January 2014.

This direction has now closed. We issued a letter on 1 December, ending the department’s intervention.

Published 9 January 2014
Last updated 26 January 2016 + show all updates

1. 26 January 2016

   Added a letter ending the direction.

2. 9 January 2014

   First published.