Cambridgeshire County Council was warned by the inspectorate in April 2018 that caseloads were "unacceptably high" following a focused visit.
While some improvements have followed extra financial investment, Ofsted downgraded the service after a visit in January 2019.
The Ofsted report stated: "The most significant challenge to the local authority's ability to provide consistently good services to children, young people and their families has been, and continues to be, the size of caseloads.
"These are too high for most social workers and unsustainable in some teams.
"The impact of this is that, too often, social workers and frontline managers have had to focus on the most urgent and important work to secure children's immediate safety, without sufficient capacity for the follow-up work needed to sustain change within families or to ensure that children in care have permanent homes as soon as possible."
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