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Improvement notice issued to St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council

An improvement notice issued to St Helens Council due to poor performance in children’s social services.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 20 December 2019
• Last updated: 2 October 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Improvement notice for St Helens

PDF, 155 KB, 3 pages

Letter to St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council: June 2020

PDF, 119 KB, 2 pages

Details

This improvement notice was lifted following a report by Ofsted published on 4 September 2023.

This improvement notice requires St Helens Council to take steps to improve its children’s social care services.

It follows a 4 November 2019 report by Ofsted which judged the overall effectiveness of children’s social care services provided by St Helens Council to be inadequate.

The above letter has been issued to St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council. It outlines the principles which the Department for Education has agreed in response to a request for flexibilities from the local authority to enable it to deliver the requirements of its improvement notice, while responding to the challenges of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Published 20 December 2019
Last updated 2 October 2023 + show all updates

1. 2 October 2023

   The improvement notice has been closed and a link added to the new Ofsted report.

2. 15 July 2020

   Added letter from DfE relating to coronavirus (COVID-19).

3. 20 December 2019

   First published.