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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Louise Tickle

‘Painful’ Ofsted report in Herefordshire leads to calls for resignations

The report says that children in Herefordshire are not protected from harm.
The report says that children in Herefordshire are not protected from harm. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Councillors called for heads to roll at an extraordinary general meeting held to discuss Herefordshire’s failing children’s services after an Ofsted inspection slated its social work as “inadequate” in all areas.

After a slew of damning high court judgments since 2018 that detailed how Herefordshire social workers had breached children’s human rights, the criticisms in a recent Ofsted report were described by councillors as “painful”, “extremely upsetting”, and “harrowing”.

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