A GOVERNMENT commissioner will be appointed to help turn around Bradford Council’s beleaguered Children’s Services department after concerns were raised at the slow pace of improvement.
They are likely to be appointed in September - almost three years after the District’s Children’s Services were rated “inadequate” by Ofsted.
Since then an improvement plan has been put in place, but return inspections by Ofsted have found that while some improvements have been made, the pace has been painfully slow, with one MP describing it as “shameful.”
Recent updates have found that the department is over reliant on agency staff, and has a high turnover of social workers.