Children: Social Services

(asked on 7th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which children's services departments are rated as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requiring improvement and (d) inadequate; and which such departments are subject to intervention measures.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 12th January 2016

Ofsted have run a number of pilot inspections since 2010:

  • 5 multi-agency child protection inspection pilots;
  • 2 joint (with CQC) children looked after inspection pilots;
  • 2 Integrated inspection pilots; and
  • 1 Joint targeted area inspection, undertaken in November/December 2015.

Following the pilot in November/December 2015, Ofsted intends to conduct up to six Joint Targeted Area Inspections by the summer of 2016.

There are 152 local authority children’s services departments. Of these three are rated ‘outstanding’, 53 are rated ‘good’, 36 are rated ‘adequate’, 39 are rated ‘Requires improvement’ and 21 are rated ‘Inadequate’. A table that has been attached to this answer sets out the most recent Ofsted rating for each local authority and indicates whether the authority is subject to intervention for its children’s social care services. All local authorities rated as ‘Inadequate’ are subject to intervention measures.

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