Children services at Hartlepool Borough Council were last fully inspected in July 2018, when overall effectiveness was judged to be good.
A monitoring visit conducted by the inspectorate last month found that since then, the "strong and stable" senior management team has continued to improve the quality of social work practice in spite of increasing demand for services.
Inspectors found relationship-based practice to be a service priority and that senior managers had created additional capacity to help maintain manageable caseloads to enable social workers to deliver high-quality direct work with children and their families.
"As a result, children’s circumstances are improving," the monitoring report states.
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