As they arrived on site I was just walking into our welcome meeting when the phone rings; it’s the call from Ofsted announcing a focussed visit on children in care.
We therefore unleashed the plans in place, did all the things we do, progressed with the Diagnostic whilst submitting the Annex A for Ofsted, organised the set-up meeting, and planned the inspection diary. We quickly recognised we had a number of our highly skilled business support colleagues missing, but all would be well as our Safeguarding Improvement Officer was taking the reins. This reassuring thought lasted ten minutes before I was informed he needed to go home due to illness. As always, however, colleagues stepped up, went above and beyond, and overstretched their reach.
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