Guardian Public Service Awards 2017 overall winner: Hertfordshire county council

An overhaul of how to approach families is yielding outstanding results and has won Hertfordshire the care award and overall title

Hertfordshire county council’s new way of working with looked-after children and their families is turning lives around and saving millions of pounds at the same time. Its remarkable success is even attracting national attention, and being tested by four other local authorities.

England’s chief social worker for children and families, Isabelle Trowler, believes the model being developed by the home counties authority could have a “profound” effect on the national system. “I think Hertfordshire might just be our national treasure.”

Hertfordshire has truly broken the mould ... children and families are healthier and happier

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2iicfuT