The details have been set out in the watchdog’s social care newsletter, which states that the structure of children’s social care inspections will be revised in the next year to 18 months.
New guidelines will also be developed for inspections into the welfare provision in boarding schools, residential family centres and local authority private fostering arrangements.
The revisions are an attempt by the inspectorate to "facilitate integrated inspections" with education and welfare in schools and further education colleges.
The newsletter goes on to say this will "provide effective information from children’s social care to inform inspections of local authority safeguarding and looked-after children provision, and the Comprehensive Area Assessment".
Ofsted has made assurances that social care providers will be consulted during the process and the new guidelines will be piloted before being rolled out nationally. Inspectors will also receive training prior to implementation.
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