Reading Borough Council's children's services was rated "inadequate" in August 2016 after child protection failings were uncovered. Since December 2018, responsibility for delivering children's social care and early help services in Reading has been with Brighter Futures for Children, a community interest company, wholly owned by the council, set up with the help of a £2.9m government grant.
Ofsted's report reviews findings from a monitoring visit on March 12-13. This was the eighth monitoring visit since the local authority was judged inadequate.
Inspectors focused on the effectiveness of the children's single point of access (CSPoA) in responding to concerns about children, the early response to risk and the effectiveness "step up" or "step down" arrangements between different levels of intervention.
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