Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the August 2014 Ofsted inspection report which found Buckinghamshire County Council's children's services (particularly in relation to the protection of children) to be "inadequate"; who has been appointed as Buckinghamshire County Council Children's Social Care Adviser; and when it is expected that Buckinghamshire County Council will resume direct responsibility for its children's services.

Buckinghamshire County Council continues to be responsible for delivering and improving its own children’s services; the Government has appointed Red Quadrant as an adviser for a period of eighteen months to support it in doing so. The Department for Education’s intervention arrangements will, however, remain in place until the performance of children’s services in Buckinghamshire reaches the required level.