JTAI to continue but without HMI Probation
Joint Targeted Area Inspections are set to continue – but without probation input, it has been announced.
Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) have announced that their programme of joint targeted area inspections will restart.
Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Social Care, said: “Restarting [...]
DfE issues Improvement Notice to Solihull Council following joint inspection
An Improvement Notice has been issued to Solihull Council by the Department for Education following the recent Joint Targeted Inspection of the authority.
The Improvement Notice was issued on 28 February 2022 following concerns around serious weaknesses in parts of the council’s children’s social care functions, and evidence of unassessed and unknown [...]
Arthur Review: Learning from significant incidents is not shared effectively with workforce
There is insufficient social work capacity in Solihull’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub to effectively deal with presenting need, a joint inspection has found.
The Joint Targeted Area Inspection, carried out by Ofsted, Care Quality Commission and HMI Probation and HMI Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services, was ordered following the death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
Arthur’s step-mother Emma [...]
Multi-disciplinary working with children: the context
Select any Serious Case Review from a decade ago and the report will likely point to two areas of deficit: information sharing and multi-disciplinary working – with the two going hand in hand.
Undoubtedly, multi-disciplinary or multi-agency working is far more established today but is it completely embedded in social work practice?
The Social Care Institute [...]
Blog: Are social workers really ill-equipped to deal with child sexual abuse in families?
It was an alarming read that a joint inspection of local authorities found that local agencies are often woefully ill-equipped to deal with child sex abuse in families.
Professionals have been dealing with intra-familial sexual abuse for decades and to think that their approach was falling short of expectations from key inspectorates was somewhat disturbing.
Special report: JTAI into child sexual abuse in families
Local agencies are often woefully ill-equipped to deal with child sex abuse in families, according to the Inspectorates Ofsted, HMICFRS, Care Quality Commission and HMI Probation.
Children sexually abused by family members are going unseen and unheard in too many cases, while abusers evade justice, the report warned. Efforts to prevent abuse are largely absent, [...]
