For the latest Tameside news sign up to the MyTameside newsletter here Ofsted inspectors have uncovered a raft of issues in Tameside’s social services during the pandemic – including a 'deterioration' in responses and some youngsters continuing to live amid ‘neglect’ for too long.
The watchdog carried out a focused inspection of the council’s children’s services department in May as part of a national investigation into how care is being delivered throughout Covid-19.
In the report, published on Friday, by her majesty’s inspector Paula Thomson-Jones said that greater demands on the service, combined with higher staff turnover has meant that caseloads are now ‘too high’ among most social work teams.
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