The two-week on-site inspections will scrutinise the quality of council child protection and early intervention services.
They will focus on the child’s "journey" and "experience" of services, as recommended by the Munro review into the child protection system.
To this end, inspectors will talk directly with children and their families and will shadow frontline professionals and managers.
Inspectors will consider whether professionals could have prevented children from entering the child protection system in the first place by offering better "early help" and will examine the impact of any failure to provide such help.
Councils will be rated on four key inspection judgments: their capacity to improve; the effectiveness of the help they provide to children, families and carers; the quality of professional practice; and the quality of leadership and management.
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