Ofsted's national director for social care, Yvette Stanley said in a blog that assurance inspections of STCs would be conducted every year in addition to the full annual inspections carried out alongside the Care Quality Commission and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons.
"Since 2016, our full inspections have shown that STCs do not provide the quality of care that we expect for children. In some cases, children were at risk of harm. This is simply not good enough for some of the most vulnerable children in our society," said Stanley.
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