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Thursday, September 9, 2010 |
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Doncaster to carry out independent safeguarding review |
by Matthew Little www.cypnow.co.uk - added 12/01/2009 |
Doncaster Council is to carry out an internal and independent review into its own safeguarding services for children, following the announcement of a separate review by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
Mayor of Doncaster Martin Winter said the review, which will begin on Wednesday 14 January, will probe "why we have experienced such difficulties in our delivery of child safety, and crucially, how and what lessons can be learned".
Councillors in the town will hold an extraordinary public meeting on Tuesday to express their concerns about safeguarding issues.
The DCSF will send a "diagnostic team" to Doncaster to address the "root causes" of underperformance in Doncaster's children's services department after serious case reviews were ordered into the deaths of seven children in the borough since 2004, five of them since December 2007.
Doncaster was classified as inadequate by Ofsted in its annual performance assessment, published in December. It expressed particular concern that one in four child protection cases were not allocated to a social worker, and said the local safeguarding children board had not ensured the effective management of child protection allegations.
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