A FULL review of all cases currently being handled by Herefordshire s children s services will take place after a damning judgement found serious failures in the department. An extraordinary meeting of Herefordshire Council heard on April 27 that the Department for Education had commissioned Essex children s services to undertake an immediate helicopter review of looked after care cases to identify issues earlier this month after a judge found a string of failures in the county s children s social care services. Essex reviewed 19 cases selected independently from a full case list and reported that there were no red flags in them. But councillor Jonathan Lester said more needed to be done to ensure the failures were not repeated.
Council spending money in housing battle could be unnecessary
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