The regulator notes that the council has had to deal with “complexities of local government reorganisation” since the council was formed as a unitary authority in 2019 by merging the three Dorset council areas.
But while this process is “starting to make a positive difference” inspectors warn that “it is too early to see an impact for a large number of children and their families”.
Ofsted found that there “remain too many areas where progress has been neither sufficiently swift or decisive”.
Quality checking is not reliable or accurate, inspectors found, and the quality of social work is “too variable, with much being poor”.
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