Nottingham City Council has been given more than £500,000 by the Government to improve its 'inadequate' children's services. Ofsted gave the authority its lowest rating after an inspection last July, which found too many children were being left with "insufficient protection".
Government commissioners could have been sent in to run the council's children's services following the inspection report, which said some children meeting the threshold for social care intervention waited for up to six weeks to be seen. But this step was avoided and the Department for Education (DfE) is instead monitoring progress.
The council has now announced that it has been successful in bidding for DfE grant funding to help improve its children's services. In documents published on May 10, the council says it has been allocated £504,285.
