Addressing delegates at the Children's Services Network John Coughlan said that Ofsted is currently going through a transformational process similar to that experienced by local authorities during the integration of children's services.
Last month Coughlan criticised the watchdog for its focus on process rather than practice and rejected the inadequate rating given to one of Hampshire's serious case reviews.
But speaking to the conference yesterday, Coughlan said: "Ofsted has been going through a journey that most local authorities have been going through, in joining together some of the powerful edifices of the old education system and mixing them with integrated social care competences.
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