While much inspection activity was put on hold during lockdown, Ofsted’s regulatory work in social care has continued, explains national director for social care Yvette Stanley.
The body registered more than 120 new providers or bits of provision – mostly children’s homes – and carried out 30 urgent visits. Meanwhile, compliance activity such as cancellations, suspensions and imposing restrictions continued.
Visits to local authority children’s services and children’s social care providers were set to start again in September with new guidance published mid August, when CYP Now spoke to Stanley.
“We absolutely appreciate the challenging context that colleagues have been working with, but think it is time now to scale back up our regulatory work,” she explains. “The child protection and care system deals with the most vulnerable children in society and it is important to get back out to assure the system and society that things are going in the right direction.”
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