Results from the Audit Commission's final Comprehensive Performance Assessments (CPAs) published today, show that children and young people's services were the least improved of all council services.
Surrey, Haringey, Doncaster and Milton Keynes were the councils that lost two stars because of their children and young people's services.
In Surrey, Haringey and Doncaster, this was largely because the councils were rated as inadequate for safeguarding children.
Of the councils that were not already rated as four star, almost half were held back from improving their ratings by their score in children and young people's services.
The Audit Commission uses Ofsted's Annual Performance Assessment data to inform the children and young people's services element of CPA.
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