Speaking at the recent conference on the role of the private sector in government initiatives, Naomi Compton, head of early years and childcare at Derbyshire County Council, which is piloting the inspections, expressed alarm that the private and voluntary sectors were not even mentioned in the initial proposals put out for consultation in Every Child Matters: inspecting services for children and young people.
Ms Compton said, 'The documentation says what the local authority, social services and the police are doing, but there is no mention of the private and voluntary sectors.' Emphasising that inspectors will be visiting private providers in the Derbyshire pilot, she warned that other councils could take the view that because they were not in the inspection document, they didn't have to be considered.
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