Contract for legal services for the set up of Sandwell Children's Trust

The intervention policy on response to failure to deliver children's social care services is set out in Putting Children First, published July 2016. There is a presumption in cases of persistent or systemic failure that children's social care services will be removed from local authority control, for a period of time, in order to bring about sustainable improvement, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so. The report of the Commissioner for Children's Services for Sandwell concluded that the council did no...