Buckinghamshire County Council's children's services department received the judgment over a range of concerns around the quality of child protection assessments, high caseloads, and poor record keeping.
But a monitoring visit, the second to take place since the last full inspection in August 2014, found a number of improvements.
Inspectors said social work practice has improved for children entering care in the last six months, with decisions around taking children into care deemed to be "timely and appropriate" in the vast majority of cases.
There was also evidence of proactive work to disrupt and respond to concerns of sexual exploitation, and inspectors noted that there had been investment in the independent reviewing officer (IRO) service, which has "resulted in increased capacity and real improvement in the service".
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