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Revised direction issued to Herefordshire Council (March 2023)

Statutory direction issued to Herefordshire Council in relation to children's services.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 1 March 2023

Applies to England

Documents

Revised direction issued to Herefordshire Council

PDF, 128 KB, 4 pages

Details

This direction requires the council to continue to co-operate with the commissioner appointed by the Secretary of State for Education.

It follows:

• an Ofsted inspection report of Herefordshire Council local authority children’s services published 21 September 2022 that judged services to be inadequate across all sub judgements
• an independent report by Eleanor Brazil, the Secretary of State’s Commissioner for Herefordshire Children Services Commissioner

This direction replaces the earlier statutory direction issued to the council in September 2022.

Published 1 March 2023