The mantra that "only ‘good' is good enough" when assessing the performance of children's services was strongly and repeatedly put forward by Ofsted in the lead up to the launch of the single inspection framework (SIF) in November 2013.
Ofsted's desire to raise expectations of children's services was driven by concerns that some councils were coasting. To address this, the "adequate" rating was replaced with "requires improvement".
The results show the bar was raised: 30 councils were rated as "inadequate" under the SIF, with a further 68 rated requires improvement. By comparison, under the previous inspection framework, 17 authorities were judged inadequate for safeguarding.
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