Children’s social care chief ‘very pleased’ that inspectors recognised council’s ‘effective support’
Leading officers speak of concerns about the lack of coverage of young people’s experiences of lockdown
Head of safeguarding says drop largely down to fall in referrals from schools, with children ‘less visible to professionals’ during lockdown
Coroner criticises staff who allowed woman suffering from paranoid schizophrenia unsupervised overnight visits
Is a model of social work that radically transformed child protection in one borough about to go mainstream?
A behind-the-scenes account of the work of Hackney’s Child Protection Team