Gloucestershire Council has announced plans to recruit 30 extra children's social workers after an unannounced Ofsted inspection found caseloads were too high.

Ofsted's report, published today, said social work capacity varied across the teams, and that in some circumstances high caseloads had resulted in delays to initial assessments.

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