Summary
Birmingham Children's Director Tony Howell attempted to have a damning Ofsted expos of the city's continuing failure to help children at risk of sexual and physical abuse watered down, it has emerged.
Mr Howell wrote to the watchdog after Ofsted sent the city council a draft copy of its report and asked for comments.See the full content of this document
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City Tried to Sway Damning Ofsted Findings ; Exclusive
He took issue with the central finding that safeguarding measures by social services remain inadequate and have been for two years.
But his efforts to have the more critical aspects of the report toned down were not successful.His plea was rejected by Ofsted, which said it could not accept Mr Howell's version...See the full content of this document
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