Issue - meetings

Background:

The Cabinet accepted this report as urgent to enable consideration of the matter at the earliest opportunity (the next scheduled Cabinet meeting was due to take place on 9 April 2019). The report was set out in Supplementary Agenda No.2.

This report provided details and key findings from Ofsted’s Focused Visit which took place between 5 and 6 February 2019 on the Council’s Children’s Services Front Door and Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO). Ofsted had published the key findings from the Ofsted Focused Visit on 28 February 2019, which was set out at Appendix 1 to the report.

The report stated that the leadership team had secured marked improvements in the Local Authority’s response to contacts and referrals since the Joint Targeted Area Inspection in June 2018, details of which were highlighted in section 3 of the report.

Reasons:

To formally notify the Cabinet of the outcome of the inspection together with the Council’s response to the inspection’s findings.