Wakefield Council has the unfortunate distinction of being the first children’s services department to be rated “inadequate” overall under Ofsted’s Inspection of Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS).
The inspection judgment, published in July 2018, followed a critical focused visit to assess “front door” services earlier in the year and represented a deterioration in standards after the department was rated “requires improvement” at its previous full inspection in 2016.
The ILACS judgment found a series of cases where children known to Wakefield Council’s children’s services department were at risk, that concerns flagged at the 2016 inspection had not been acted on and previously good services had deteriorated.
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