Peterborough’s children’s services cabinet member Sheila Scott has said it became apparent a few weeks after the death of Tyler Whelan that there had been failures in the department charged with looking after vulnerable children in the city.
A Serious Case Review by the Peterborough Safeguarding Children Board has highlighted a series of failures in Peterborough City Council’s children’s services department in the handling of the Tyler case. Interim children’s services director Malcolm Newsam said on Monday that there were two opportunities where more action could have been taken prior to Tyler’s death in March 2011”
Peterborough Evening Telegraph
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The Cabinet Member for Childrens Services Sheila Scott is currently unavailable for comment, so here is a BBC interview she attended after an unsatisfactory Ofsted report in May 2010, alongside her then Director, John Richards, subsequently himself sacked after a further damning Ofsted report in September 2011.
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08:35 Monday 24th May 2010
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
PAUL STAINTON: Parts of Peterborough’s services for children in care have been labelled as inadequate by the Care Quality Commission and Ofsted. The service was voted as good in 21 categories, 9 were judged as adequate, and 3 categories were deemed as inadequate Joining us now is John Richards, Peterborough City Council’s Director of Children’s Services, and Councillor Sheila Scott is the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services at the Council. So guys, who’s fault is this? Who shall I start with? Shall I start with you John? Is it your fault? Continue reading “On the Value of Pledges and Promises”