This week marks the first anniversary of the start of the latest round of Ofsted inspections of children's services departments.
Inspectors rolled into Rochdale Council on 29 January 2018 to carry out the first proper inspection of local authority children's services (Ilacs). The report, published in mid-March, showed Rochdale had made steady progress since it was last inspected in October 2014, but not enough to boost the rating it received then of "requires improvement".
Fast forward a year to the most recent inspection judgment to be published, that of Birmingham City Council. The largest children's services department in England had been rated "inadequate" for the past decade, resulting in responsibility for children's services being transferred to an independent trust in 2017.
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