The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Lancashire County Council in breach of the Data Protection Act after social work records containing sensitive personal data relating to several individuals were found in a filing cabinet purchased second-hand by a member of the public.
Ofsted should be the calm, measured voice that helps to make child protection services work better rather than feeding people’s fears, council leaders said today.
CWDC director of strategy Keith Brumfitt discusses work underway to support social work and the forthcoming launch of a major national campaign to recruit the next generation of social workers
