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This report from the Commissioner for Children’s ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº in West Sussex sets out the progress made on service improvement. It recommends:

• that conditions at the council have improved and are now conducive to supporting the continued improvement of children’s services
• the pause for a period of 12 months’ work to set up a company to provide children’s social care services, subject to improvement being maintained

This report is the second by the current commissioner. The previous report was issued in December 2019, following a report by Ofsted that judged the overall effectiveness of the council’s children’s social care services to be inadequate.

The Department for Education issued a revised statutory direction to West Sussex County Council on 10 December 2020.