Issue - meetings
ILACS (Inspection of Local Authority Children's Services)
Meeting: 03/07/2025 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 10)
ILACS (Inspection of Local Authority Children's Services)
10 minutes
The Board to receive initial feedback on the recent ILACS – verbal report.
Chris Wilford, Director – Education & Safeguarding (Interim DCS) B&NES
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Minutes:
Chris Wilford gave a verbal report as below:
1. The Council had received formal notification of the inspection on 2 June.
2. Inspectors looked at how the local authority provided service to children.
3. It was a two-week inspection, one week off-site and one week on-site.
4. The first week was about performance data and speaking to senior leaders.
5. The second week involved a lot of interviews with staff, young people, schools and a focus on care leaders.
6. The Inspectors had a particular focus on children outside education/school system and mental health pathways for children in care/care leavers.
7. Inspectors were looking to see if the level of service had been maintained, improved or deteriorated.
8. The outcome of the inspection was embargoed until the report was published at the beginning of August.
9. He thanked all staff including social workers for their input.
The Board RESOLVED to note the information about the ILACS inspection.
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