Children’s Services Commissioner in Bromley

Where Ofsted finds systemic or persistent failure by a local authority to provide adequate children’s services, the Department for Education initiates steps to secure improvement, with a presumption that this will best be achieved by removing the service from council control. An independent Children’s Services Commissioner was appointed by the Secretary of State for Education to test this presumption in Bromley, and found that changes to the leadership and management of the service were promising enough for the...