Ofsted's Social Care Annual Report for 2016 reported on the quality of leaving care services for the first time, concluding work with care leavers "demands more focus and improvement".
"The evidence suggests that local authorities are not always sticking with care leavers for long enough to ensure that they find their place in the world. The support for them is too variable," says the report. "Often, it lacks a tenacious, ambitious approach to support them to grow up, leave home, and find rewarding work and further education."
At the time of publication, 57 per cent of local authorities had been inspected under the Single Inspection Framework (SIF) and just two per cent were rated "outstanding" for leaving care services.
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