Under the inspection of local authority children's services (ILACS) system, which was officially introduced in January, inadequate councils received up to six quarterly monitoring visits prior to a three-week re-inspection under the predecessor to ILACS - the single inspection framework (SIF).
However, Ofsted has now announced that inadequate councils will no longer receive a three-week SIF inspection, instead getting a two-week standard ILACS visit - the same inspection that councils judged to be "requires improvement" get.
An updated ILACS framework, which was first published in November 2017, sets out the change.
"We will no longer carry out re-inspections of inadequate local authorities using the single inspection framework," the document states.
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