It is a little more than three years since Ofsted's previous inspection rated our children's services as "good". We've done a lot of work since then developing staff training and feedback programmes with a focus on our first line and middle managers, building relationships with partners to eliminate duplicated effort and target resources, while investing in new targeted and evidence-based preventative "edge of care" services to keep children with their families.
Our self-assessments indicated that we remained a good service and one that we believed was making a positive difference to people's lives, but we felt it was time to take stock and see if we were doing as well as we thought we were and ask how we could do better.
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