The latest assessment of Southwark Councils social care for financial year 09_10 when the Lib Dems led is that Southwark was performing ‘well’. This is clearly a big step up from the previous years performing ‘adequately’. Which without change followed the previous ‘outstanding’ which was decided under a different regime.

How this grading can oscillate so much with fundamentally small change I think says more about the bodies measuring the performance than it does about Southwark Councils social care.

Either-way, well done Cllr David Noakes who politically led social care during 09_10 and all the officers, volunteers and residents this performance relates to.