Addressing delegates at the inspectorate’s first annual social care lecture, John Goldup said that adoption service inspections have not always focused on the right judgments.
"People are quite reasonably saying, how can it be true that 80 per cent of local authority adoption services are good or outstanding – which is what Ofsted inspection judgments say – when the number of children adopted from care is falling, when there is huge variation between authorities in the time it takes to place children for adoption and when the government is identifying a national crisis in our adoption system," he said.
"I think these are very complex issues, and there are no simple or simplistic answers. But I do say, as far as inspection is concerned, I’m not sure we have been looking at the right things, at the things that make the most difference."
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