Both Halton Borough Council, in the north west, and Hull City Council, in East Yorkshire, were given a “requires improvement” grading after being inspected in November.
The results further enforce the trend for authorities failing to do enough to warrant “good” or “outstanding” ratings under the current framework, which was introduced in November 2013.
Just last month CYP Now reported that three quarters of children’s services departments assessed under Ofsted’s single inspection framework have been rated in the bottom two grades, with nearly half inspected so far seeing a fall in their judgment compared with previous performance.
Including Halton and Hull, which were previously rated as “good” and “adequate” respectively, a total of 44 authorities have now been inspected as part of the three-year programme which is due to be completed by November 2016.
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