John Richards came on the radio this morning to explain why OFSTED gave Peterborough City Council a “poor” rating for its Childrens Services.<\/p>\n
Here are the extracts from the OFSTED report that relate to the failings: Inspection by Ofsted identified potential risks to some vulnerable children caused by John Richards rightly commented that much of the work being done is successful, but that the final assessment is due to problems with their “front door”.<\/p>\n Ultimately what this is likely to mean is that the Verto software system let them down. There have been reports that many inquiries for assessement were forgotten. I think we are entitled to some answers on this. Spending \u00a312 million a year to place vulnerable children at risk does not seem to be an effective use of council tax payers money, if that is what is happening.<\/p>\n If this is true, as it appears to be, why are we not being told this in black and white? If it is not true, let’s hear about it.<\/p>\n It cannot be acceptable that individuals wanting to preserve their own professional reputations take precedence over the safety of children. That cannot be acceptable.<\/p>\n Corrections welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Richards came on the radio this morning to explain why OFSTED gave Peterborough City Council a “poor” rating for its Childrens Services. Here are the extracts from the OFSTED report that relate to the failings:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,145,246,62,164,163],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc-radio-peterborough","tag-amtec-consulting","tag-consultants","tag-john-richards","tag-peterborough-city-council","tag-tmi-systems","tag-v4-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nChildren\u2019s services in Peterborough City Council perform poorly. The decline in
\nperformance since the 2009 assessment reflects an inadequate inspection judgment
\nof local arrangements for safeguarding children and young people.
\nA recent full inspection of safeguarding arrangements reported that not all provision
\nwas good enough and as a result some children and young people were left at
\npotential risk.<\/em><\/p>\n
\ndelays in assessments, a shortage of social workers and inconsistency in the way
\nrecords are kept.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis is the new software system designed and implemented by transformation consultants currently the subject of a Council Scrutiny Committe Inquiry due to report finally in January.<\/p>\n
\nThere have been reports that the software system in place is effectively so slow as to be unusable.<\/p>\n