Children: Social Services

(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Emma Lewell-Buck Portrait
Emma Lewell-Buck
(Labour - South Shields)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what exemptions to which statutory guidance were granted to each individual local authority in respect of their social services functions as they relate to children in each of the last three years.

Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 27th January 2017

The table below details all freedoms from statutory guidance that have been tested in the last three years. In Putting Children First the Department committed to “safely test and evaluate the removal of barriers that social work leaders tell us get in the way of good practice”. Alongside implementation of the power to test different ways of working, which will allow local authorities to apply to test changes to legislation, we will also seek to allow local authorities to test further freedoms from statutory guidance.

Local authority

Freedom (Working Together to Safeguard Children)

Brent

  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

Leeds

  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

Hackney

  • 45 working day assessment time limit
  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC
  • 10 working day time limit from ICPC to core group discussion (if child is subject of CPP)

Hammersmith & Fulham

  • 45 working day assessment time limit
  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

Hartlepool

  • 45 working day assessment time limit

Kensington & Chelsea

  • 45 working day assessment time limit
  • 15 working day lime limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

Suffolk

  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

Wandsworth

  • 45 working day assessment time limit
  • 10 working day time limit from ICPC to core group discussion (if child is subject of CPP) – until January 2015

Westminster City Council

  • 45 working day assessment time limit
  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC
  • 10 working day time limit from ICPC to core group discussion (if child is subject of CPP)

West Sussex

  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

Wokingham

  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

Knowsley (until 2014)

  • 45 working day assessment time limit
  • 15 working day time limit from strategy discussion to ICPC

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