Bromley Council received the lowest rating across each of the three main inspection areas - child protection, children in care, and leadership - following an inspection in May 2016, with Ofsted stating that children were being "left in neglectful and abusive situations for too long".
A quarterly monitoring visit, the fourth to be conducted since the inspection report was published, found that the local authority is making "substantive progress" in improving services for children and young people at risk of sexual exploitation, and "some progress" for those who go missing.
"In the cases reviewed on this visit, no inadequate practice was found and aspects of good practice were identified," a letter outlining the findings of the visit states.
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