Sandwell Council launched a children's trust in April to help improve standards in children's services, which were rated as "inadequate" in 2015 and again in January this year following a reinspection.
In its first monitoring visit since the trust was set up the inspectorate praised the new organisation for its "determination" to improve services and for quickly recognising the scale of work required.
This has included plans to tackle instability in the workforce and high social worker caseloads. Currently, a third of social workers are agency or interim staff and inspectors said caseloads are too high, which means staff do not have enough time with children.
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