Children: Social Services

(asked on 27th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authority children's services departments are not run directly by the local authority; and what the nature is of the structure within which each such department operates.


Answered by
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Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 1st November 2016

There are five Local Authorities in England that do not directly run their children’s social care services: Doncaster, Slough, Kingston, Richmond and the Isle of Wight. Doncaster and Slough Local Authorities’ children’s social care services are delivered by independent organisations – both Companies Limited by Guarantee - called Doncaster Children’s Services Trust and Slough Children’s Services Trust respectively. Kingston and Richmond’s children’s services are delivered by a Community Interest Company called Achieving for Children. The Isle of Wight has a partnership agreement with Hampshire Local Authority where the Hampshire DCS and his children’s services department has full operational responsibility for the Isle of Wight’s children’s services.


The Tri-borough partnership (London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and City of Westminster) has combined the delivery of some children’s services across the three local authorities.

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