Inspectors have found 'widespread failings'
Inspectors have found "widespread failings" at the partnership providing services for thousands of vulnerable children and young people in Nottinghamshire amid reports of parents feeling "worried and angry." A report by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission says some parents and carers feel they are having to "fight" for their children as many of them wait too long to be assessed.
Colin Pettigrew is the Director of Children's and Families' services at Nottinghamshire County Council, having worked at the authority since 2015. Mr Pettigrew says the long waits for assessments was "very well known" and that the plan to address that "wasn't effective enough." The report says: "Partnership leaders are setting up new processes to improve data-sharing across the partnership. However, this work is at an early stage and there is no evidence of improved data-sharing and co-working."
"That means that maybe their conditions didn't improve and there is then a lag. Whatever the factors are, they are our responsibility to resolve."
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