Reading Council's children's services were handed Ofsted's lowest rating in August 2016 after inspectors found children being left too long in "situations of unknown and acute risk".
A monitoring visit conducted earlier this month found that progress "remains too slow", with efforts so far to implement the improvement plan for the local authority deemed to be "too process orientated".
Inspectors highlighted the fact that implementation of the improvement plan is being led by an interim member of staff who is providing cover to the head of transformation and improvement following the resignation of the permanent postholder.
They added that work to stabilise the workforce has been "ineffective" with no progress made since the last monitoring visit.
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