Reports

Families’ Commission

Rather than looking at individual cases a commission was set up to help let families’ experiences be heard and form improvements to the service.

For the individuals in question, nothing can change the experiences they have had, and the impact on their families. Their loss of faith in the services and systems that they believed were there to help and support them is profound. They have found the complaints procedures inadequate, not least because, where they have had their complaints upheld, the promised actions have rarely materialised. Neither have they been recorded on case files, meaning that the same injustices can be perpetuated.
— Herefordshire Commission Final Report
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Commissioner’s reports

Reports to the Minister for Children and Families by Eleanor Brazil - Children’s DFE Commissioner.

Critical Analysis of reports by Eleanor Brazil - 'Mind The Gaps' by Howells & Hewitt
Progress report of the Children’s Services Commissioner in Herefordshire: 2024
Progress report of the Children’s Services Commissioner in Herefordshire: 2023
Commissioner’s report on ways forward for children’s services in Herefordshire

Ofsted reports

Into Herefordshire ‘INADEQUATE’ Children’s Services.

Joint local area SEND inspection in Herefordshire from 26 to 30 September 2016
Children's services inspection Herefordshire Council from 29 April 2014 to 21 May 2014
Monitoring visit to Herefordshire children’s services on 22 and 23 October 2024
Monitoring visit to Herefordshire children’s services on 21 and 22 February 2024
Monitoring visit to Herefordshire children’s services on 26 and 27 September 2023
Monitoring visit to Herefordshire children’s services on 28 and 29 June 2023
Focused visit to Herefordshire children’s services on 16 August 2021
Focused visit to Herefordshire local authority children’s services on 21 January 2020
Focused visit to Herefordshire local authority children’s services on 14 February 2019