Some stuff on WSSS. They have a history of big fuck ups. In 2019 they were so bad the government threatened to take them over. They installed a new boss though in 2019 ( Lucy Butler) and since then she's been praised for turning things around
, they've gone from being rated Inadequate to 'needs improvement' by Ofsted. It seems like they're just keeping a lid on things and stopping the bad news getting out! There must be loads of people aware of this, councillors, MP, judges.
I would guess human rights law has been breached in Kieran's case too, if Lynn Rickwood ignored safety plans or things reported to her about KP to deliberately stop the kids being removed and seeing their dad.
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Luke Stevenson on June 21, 2016 in
Child safeguarding,
Children
A mother and two children have been awarded £45,000 in damages after a judge found a council ‘abused’ a section 20 agreement and breached human rights law.
Judge Farquhar
made the award after ruling West Sussex Council had acted unlawfully by exercising parental responsibility “in every conceivable area” of the children’s lives without the power to do so; failing to promote contact between the children and mother; and failing to issue care proceedings for almost two and a half years, which had denied the children independent representation''
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2019 Widespread and serious weaknesses at West Sussex children's services have resulted in an Ofsted rating of 'inadequate'.
Services have seriously declined since the last inspection, when all areas were judged to require improvement to be good, an inspection of children's services has revealed.
There are long-standing, widespread and serious weaknesses in the provision of services to safeguard children in West Sussex.- Critical weaknesses in how social workers, managers and partner agencies identify and respond to neglect are evident across the service.
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'Friday, 17 November 2023 06:00
By Karen Dunn, Local Democracy Reporter
A councillor has predicted that an ongoing inspection of West Sussex County Council’s special educational needs service will lead to ‘
a bloody damning report’.
Andrew Baldwin (Con, Holbrook) was one of several councillors to voice concerns during a scrutiny meeting on Wednesday (November 15).
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