It's January 2018 and Lisa Pascoe, Ofsted's deputy director, social care, is addressing a conference about the new inspection framework for local authority children's services. She's careful to emphasise that the new framework will be proportionate to each authority, that "good" authorities will receive a short inspection of one week which will feel less intensive than the inspections that have gone before. She mentions the importance of honesty and openness and how senior teams will be rewarded about knowing the practice in their authority well. She warns there will be no room for showcasing just an honest appraisal of what is working well.
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