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This is what you have been writing to us about this week. I write with reference to my letter published on March 12 about the lack of meaningful, effective scrutiny of Buckinghamshire Council’s failing Children’s Services. Since writing my letter, I have been contacted by a number of local people, ranging from school governors to social workers, and including parents who have had involvement with Children’s Services service on behalf of a child. All those who contacted me had a story to tell about the ongoing failure of the service (still judged as inadequate, the lowest category, since Ofsted’s 2014 inspection), and urged me to continue to “make a fuss” about the situation, especially about the lack of meaningful scrutiny, and the failure of successive council cabinet members with responsibility for the service to “own the failure” and sort the sorry situation out.
This is what you have been writing to us about this week. I write with reference to the recent meeting of Buckinghamshire Council’s Children and Education Select Committee held on Thursday, March 4. My background is in education as a former secondary Headteacher and Ofsted Inspector, and the meeting agenda items of most interest to me were the last two that related to Children’s Services. By way of context, after steady improvement in the 2000’s Buckinghamshire Children’s Services was judged by Ofsted to be excellent in 2010 and 2011. In 2014, however, after a period of sustained austerity cuts, the service was judged inadequate (the lowest category) by Ofsted, and since then it has remained in that category.