Directors must ensure senior managers regularly inspect children's social services case files
Laming Inquiry · Laming Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 28 January 2003
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
Directors of social services must ensure that senior managers inspect, at least once every three months, a random selection of case files and supervision notes.
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Response — verbatim from government
●No formal government response recorded
The Index has not yet recorded a verbatim government response to this recommendation.
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.
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