Wandsworth Council's children's services department was handed the inspectorate's lowest rating in February 2016 after inspectors found a "serious decline" in leadership, management and governance and that social work practice was "unsafe" for many vulnerable children.
But following a sixth monitoring visit, which took place in December last year, Ofsted said there has been a significant turnaround in the local authority's care leavers service, which had been externally commissioned but was brought in house in September last year.
Improvements since being run directly by the council include an increase in the number of full-time equivalent personal advisers from 11 to 13 and a boost in the number of full-time equivalent education and training advisers from one to three.
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