Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what risk assessments his Department has made on proposals to place social workers in schools in the local authority areas of (a) Southampton, (b) Stockport and (c) Lambeth.
Southampton, Stockport and Lambeth have received funding from the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care to test having social workers in schools. As part of the application process the local authorities were required to provide the What Works Centre with information about key risks to delivery and the contingencies they would undertake to mitigate them. The local authorities provided their assessment as part of the application and these continue to be reviewed through project monitoring.