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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Children’s social services in Bradford to be handed to independent trust

Education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi
Education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, who made the decision to create a children’s trust in Bradford to run care services. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

Bradford council has been stripped of control of its children’s social care after an investigation following the murder of 16-month-old Star Hobson found serious shortcomings in the management of the service.

Social workers will be transferred to a not-for-profit children’s trust that ministers hope will help “drive rapid improvements” to a department which has been underperforming for years and struggled to raise its game.

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