Haringey drops to be a one star council

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As I twittered yesterday, the latest outside review of Haringey Council has seen its overall rating drop to one star:

The Audit Commission has dramatically reduced the council’s star rating, the system by which council performance is judged.

The rating has been slashed from an “improving well” three stars last year, to a “not improving adequately” one star this year.

The report noted: “The council’s failure in its key priority to safeguard children has been publicly reported and it currently delivers an inadequate service for children and young people.

“There was insufficient strategic leadership and management oversight of the safeguarding of children and young people and a lack of rigorous arrangements for the management of performance.” [Haringey Independent]

0 thoughts on “Haringey drops to be a one star council”

  1. So what, please, do LDs propose to improve the quality of local govt, bringing the worst up to the level of the best? Inspecting after the fact isn’t enough of an answer (as I have noted in an earlier comment about the specifics of child protection). We are seeing a growing layer of regulators, but not any such for local govt overall. In the areas where I work, CLG is simply absent, and DfT fumbles along in the areas where they interact with local govt.

  2. I dream of the day when Haringey is broken up and my home transfers to another borough.