Neil Terry, who worked as an administrator for the department for six years, said stressed and burnt-out staff and being mistreated by their managers and every complaint is met with “denial, ignorance and incompetence”.
The former Unite the Union representative, who said he was sacked in November 2020, has been calling on council leaders to listen to concerns raised by employees and take action for several years.
Bradford Council was stripped of control over its children’s services department earlier this year, after a Government appointed commissioner found it does not have the capacity or capability to make the improvements that are needed.
Bradford City Hall
The commissioner also highlighted a high turnover of staff at the department, which has been rated inadequate by Ofsted since 2018, as there were 124 social worker vacancies.
It spent 17.4m on agency social workers in 2020/21 and currently spends around 1.7m a month on temporary workers.
The Department for Education has said a not-for-profit trust, with an independent chair and board of directors, will take charge of the department.
Mr Terry, who said he suffered with mental health issues while working at the council and nearly took his own life, shared the results of a 2020 staff survey (504 participants).
It showed 46 per cent of staff said their working environment is never or rarely a positive one and almost 27 per cent said they were likely to leave if there were no improvements
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