By: Jim Chee

Jim Chee — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:43:43 +0000

Need to clarify a few things here. Colin Tucker was not a ‘predecessor’ of Duxbury except in the sense that he was employed by the Council before him.
Duxbury was Director of Children’s Services and followed the central government suggested Eleanor Brazil who succeeded Tony Howell. it is with Howell that these problems originated following the ‘integration ‘ of education and children’s social care departments following the Lamming report into the death of Victoria Climbie. There were intrinsic problems immediately. Peter Hay was transferred to adult social care and Howell (Tony) took responsibility for this new department even though he wasn’t up to even controlling education. Head Teachers didn’t respect him and staff tired of his embarrassing initiatives (“Imagine a City” and the like) with excruciating presentations. it was only the funding initiatives from the Labour Government that papered over the obvious cracks.
When Khyra Ishaaq died Tony Howell should have resigned (as suggested in Lamming report) but instead he limped on, appointing Tucker as a response to lessons that, as always, needed to be learnt.

By: paulmdale

paulmdale — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:00:55 +0000

Why I think #bcc should take @Andrew_Howell’s @ChamberlainFile article on children’s social services seriously http://t.co/rMxTMtWViN

By: urbancomms

urbancomms — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:06:22 +0000

@paulmdale picks up on piece by @Andrew_Howell for @ChamberlainFile on fixing Brum social services http://t.co/GLYAALsZ06

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