A list of recurrent issues that the regulator encounters during single inspection framework (SIF) inspections highlights five key areas where councils have fallen down this year.
In addition to poor management oversight, the inspectorate lists high levels of turnover among social workers, managers and leaders, and poor performance management, as factors behind "inadequate" ratings.
It also identifies drift and delay in children’s casework, and failures to recognising potential cases of child sexual exploitation and missing children as other areas where local authorities have fallen down.
Ofsted said the aim of the information, which is based on a summary of common weaknesses in local authorities that were judged inadequate in the first five months of this year, is to help local authorities "identify whether they have these or similar weaknesses and improve practice".
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