Leeds City Council is one of the few to be judged "outstanding" for children's services.
When awarding Leeds its top rating last December, Ofsted national director for social care Yvette Stanley praised the authority for delivering on its pledge to be a "child-friendly city".
"The whole report was a pleasure to read," said Stanley, "but it is particularly noteworthy that substantial progress has been made in delivering this vision."
The outstanding rating came just eight years after children's services was judged "inadequate" for safeguarding in 2010. Since then, the council's budget has also shrunk by £214m, or 40 per cent, and an additional 10,000 school places have needed to be created and funded to cope with a rising child population.
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