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Children's services at the council which failed to prevent Daniel Pelka's murder have been criticised for not improving quickly enough.
An Ofsted report, published yesterday after a three-week inspection earlier this year, found Coventry City Council children's services to be "inadequate overall."
Inspectors concluded that the department's management, leadership and governance were inadequate.
After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
