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Tag Archives: Children’s Services
Council hires children’s exec with Ofsted failure at previous job
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how Croydon’s replacement as the head of its failed Children’s Services department is someone who last year presided over another very troubling inspectors’ report Jo Negrini, Croydon’s chief executive, has announced today that the … Continue reading →
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Children’s Services placed in special measures until 2020
Ofsted inspectors have ruled that Croydon Council cannot be trusted to run its own Children’s Services department without outside supervision for at least another two years. The decision has been announced following the second review visit from Ofsted which was … Continue reading →
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Labour councillors angry over Negrini’s pre-election leak
KEN LEE reports on the fall-out from yesterday’s announcement that one of Croydon Council’s most senior executives is leaving her job Labour councillors, including some at cabinet level, are demanding to know why the council chief executive authorised the release … Continue reading →
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Exec in charge of failed Children’s Services is to leave council
Just two years after a council ‘restructuring’ saw Barbara Peacock in charge of a super-directorate including housing, schools and social care, the £170,000 per year exec is leaving Croydon as part of… another ‘restructuring’. KEN LEE reports Barbara Peacock, Croydon … Continue reading →
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Council failure over children’s services becomes election issue
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: The local Tories are suspicious over the sudden banning of a senior councillor from a key social services improvement board meeting. WALTER CRONXITE reports For Labour in Croydon, it has been the issue that they dare not mention … Continue reading →
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Senior councillor calls for abolition of council CEO role
The position of the council chief executive and two other executive directors should be axed, to make Croydon Council more accountable to councillors and residents. That’s the view of one of the borough’s longest-standing councillors, in reaction to the news … Continue reading →
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Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, Jo Negrini, Purley
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Tagged Children's Services, Donald Speakman, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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‘Confusing, euphemistic, unclear, vague’: Flemming unravels
BBC Radio London’s Vanessa Feltz was withering in her criticism of an abject on-air performance by one of Croydon’s most senior councillors. Listening in to the car crash interview was WALTER CRONXITE Answers provided by Alisa Flemming, the Croydon Council … Continue reading →
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Government grant for child asylum seekers is ‘unacceptable’
Croydon Council is to contest the central government grant it has been allocated towards the costs of supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, with just £370,000 towards the £3million costs being described as “unacceptable”. Croydon deals with 10 per cent of UASCs … Continue reading →
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Here’s Minister’s letter that Newman didn’t trust you to see
Inside Croydon today publishes the letter sent last month by the then junior minister for children and families, Robert Goodwill, to Tony Newman, the leader of Croydon Council, in response to the findings of a report on the borough’s failing … Continue reading →
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Posted in Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
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Tagged Children's Services, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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Litany of council failures before brutal death of toddler
The death of a two-year-old in a brutal murder in Wolverhampton in 2016 has been linked to the failures of Croydon’s children’s services department. Croydon children’s services has responsibility for the borough’s fostered and adopted children, unaccompanied asylum seekers and … Continue reading →
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Whitehall orders Camden to take charge of children’s services
An independent commissioner has recommended that Croydon’s crisis-hit children’s services department needs outside help, after failures of leadership and management. WALTER CRONXITE reports Pressure continues to mount on Tony Newman, the council leader, after the Department for Education last night … Continue reading →
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Posted in Adult Social Care, Alisa Flemming, Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jo Negrini, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
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Tagged Alisa Flemming, Barabra Peacock, Children's Services, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jo Negrini, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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DfE sends in Camden officials to assist with children’s services
The press release issued by council leader Tony Newman just before Christmas proclaiming success in turning around Croydon’s failing children’s services department turns out to have been the epitome of “fake news”. Others might be less charitable, and more accurate, … Continue reading →
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Council withholds Brazil’s report on failing children’s services
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the somewhat partial announcement from Tony Newman’s propaganda department that ‘you’re all doing very well’ As they wind down before Christmas, Croydon Council’s press office this lunchtime issued the latest “You’re all doing very … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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Negrini’s plea at secret Town Hall meeting to save her own job
KEN LEE reports on a Town Hall meeting to discuss one of the biggest crises in the borough’s history, and which locked out the press and public Jo Negrini, the £185,000 per year council chief executive, issued a thinly veiled … Continue reading →
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Posted in Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Stuart Collins
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Tagged Alison Butler, Alissa Flemming, Children's Services, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tory
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Extra meeting on children’s services now ‘councillor training’
Mystery surrounds what’s on the agenda for Monday night’s council meeting, or who’ll be allowed to attend. By WALTER CRONXITE Monday’s council meeting on the crisis in children’s services, called in place of a scheduled cabinet meeting, looks set to … Continue reading →
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Negrini offers council staff £500 to recruit social workers
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the increasingly desperate-looking efforts at the council to deal with the crisis in the borough’s children’s services Croydon Council has offered all its staff a £500 reward if they can help solve the borough’s social worker … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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Council criticised by Ofsted stages modern slavery conference
Croydon, where the council’s children’s services department is being carefully monitored by a government-appointed commissioner following “inadequate” findings by Ofsted inspectors, is to stage a conference on modern slavery next week. One of the more worrying findings of the Ofsted … Continue reading →
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Extra council meeting called over children’s services shambles
Croydon is to hold another emergency meeting of the full council in two weeks’ time to discuss the crisis over the borough’s children’s services, when there are sure to be further calls for council leader Tony Newman and members of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Ofsted, Tony Newman, Tory
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Union leader: ‘Our social services are on their knees’
There is a crisis in the nation’s social care system after “years of chronic underfunding” which has “left many parts of the service on its knees”, according to the head of one of the country’s largest public service workers’ unions. … Continue reading →
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Croydon’s leadership may be resigned to change at the top
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on last night’s potentially defining meeting of the council The body language spoke volumes. There, sitting behind council leader Tony Newman, the Labour councillors’ heads were down, the arms folded. Facing unremitting questioning after Ofsted … Continue reading →
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Posted in Alisa Flemming, Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Maria Gatland, Mario Creatura, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman
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Tagged Alisa Flemming, Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Tony Newman, Tory
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Croydon’s Ofsted crisis: This is too important for politics
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The children’s services report is the greatest crisis to confront the council since the riots six years ago. Except, says STEVEN DOWNES, it is just the local reflection of a national collapse of social work “This is too … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2018 council elections, Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Maria Gatland, Tony Newman
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Tagged Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Maria Gatland, Ofsted, Tony Newman, Tory
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Fitzsimons: Councillors ‘naive’ in believing senior officials
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on how some at the Town Hall are beginning to face up to uncomfortable truths Croydon’s councillors are becoming increasing angry about the way they have been misled over the handling of the children’s services crisis … Continue reading →
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Posted in Alisa Flemming, Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jan Buttinger, Jo Negrini, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman
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Tagged Alisa Flemming, Barbara Peacock, Children's Services, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman, Tory
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Children’s services director responded to parents with threats
Ian Lewis, the council director for children’s services who left his job just before the publication of the critical Ofsted report into his department’s performance, has been accused of threatening worried parents who had turned to Croydon Council for help … Continue reading →
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Staff in ‘inadequate’ Children’s Services paid £1,500 bonus
Croydon Council’s chief executive, Jo Negrini, last week rubber-stamped a £1,500 per person bonus payment to social workers, personal advisers and line managers in the children’s services department – less than two weeks after that department had been issued with … Continue reading →
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Council leader forced to resign over critical Ofsted report
WALTER CRONXITE reports on another local government Carr crash over failures to provide adequate social services The pressure is mounting this weekend on Tony Newman, the Labour leader of Croydon Council, over his and council officials’ response to the highly … Continue reading →
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Posted in 2018 council elections, Barbara Peacock, Bromley Council, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Stephen Carr, Tony Newman, Youth Services
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Tagged Barbara Peacock, Bromley Council, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Eleanor Brazil, Jo Negrini, Labour, Stephen Carr, Tony Newman
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