Kath O’Dwyer, who has been at Ofsted since May 2014, is leaving the organisation to become director of children's services (DCS) and deputy chief executive at Cheshire East Council.
News that O'Dwyer will leave the organisation comes two months after it emerged that Ofsted's director of social care, Debbie Jones, was leaving the inspectorate.
In addition to being interim national director of social care at the inspectorate, O'Dwyer is also director of social care improvement.
She is set to remain in post until September.
O’Dwyer, who had previously been director of children's services at Warrington Council, said the opportunity to work closer to home and get back to the front line was “ultimately too good to pass up”.
“The past 14 months have been incredibly rewarding and I believe the social care team has achieved a great deal during that time,” she said.
“It has been particularly pleasing to see more local authority children’s services performing well and attaining good judgements in recent inspections.”
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