Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which high performing children's services departments have provided assistance to other local authorities with such departments judged as inadequate since 2010.

Since 2010, Hampshire County Council, Essex County Council, Leeds City Council, and Achieving for Children (a social enterprise company created by Kingston and Richmond Councils to provide their children's services) have all provided assistance, through formal arrangements brokered by the Department for Education, to local authorities that have been judged inadequate by Ofsted. A range of support has been provided by Councils outside of those arrangements.