Children's Social Care Advisers and Children's Services Commissioners

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See 'Attachments' for a Word description. The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in response to failure or weakness in the provision of children's social care services. This is done in part through drawing down external expertise, from various sectors, to support local authorities in these circumstances. Children's Services Commissioners Individual appointed by the Secretary of State for Education to direct improvement arrangements where local authority children's services are inadequate. Individuals may also produce assessments of whether those services should be removed from local authority control, and, where this is the case, oversee the transfer of those services to a children's services trust. Children's Social Care Advisers Individual, partnership or small team who will work with local authorities in improving children's services where local arrangements for delivering those services are inadequate. Work may include: producing diagnostic reports; developing robust quality assurance mechanisms; building social care capacity; analysing a range of quantitative and qualitative data to assess improvement capability and progress; challenging senior leadership to make the changes necessary to secure improvement.