Following an inspection of Herefordshire Council's children's services department, the inspectorate gave a "requires improvement" overall judgment, but rated the leadership and management of the service as "inadequate".
Inspectors found that restrictions on some functions of senior managers and "challenging personal circumstances" have resulted in "a leadership team with constrained capacity, lack of stability and, in some areas, poor performance".
Ofsted said the service's leadership had failed to address many of the problems its inspectors found during their last visit to Herefordshire in 2014.
These problems included excessively large caseloads, ineffective performance management and a shortage of social workers.
Social workers, it added, are not getting quality supervision and feel disconnected from senior management.
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