The NSPCC said Ofsted needed to "learn and improve practice", after the watchdog's joint area review presented a stark contrast to its 2006 inspection, which labeled Haringey's child protection work "generally of a satisfactory standard". Yesterday's report was commissioned by the children's secretary as a response to the death of Baby P in the London borough.
Wes Cuell, NSPCC's acting chief executive, said: "Ofsted needs to make sure it is not seeing things that appear OK when they are clearly not, which must have been the case in Haringey in 2006."
Paul Ennals, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, said even Ofsted's decision to carry out annual unannounced inspections of children's services, announced yesterday, would not help evaluate frontline work.
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