The Ofsted team rated its services for looked-after children as "good" and its safeguarding as "adequate".
The report said: "Placement stability, health support, educational outcomes and arrangements to keep looked-after children and young people safe are all good."
It added: "Elected members show good commitment to corporate parenting and act as local champions for looked-after children and young people" and "joint working to enable looked-after children and young people to make a positive contribution is outstanding".
Inspectors rated the service's capacity for improvement as "good" with the report saying: "all looked-after children and young people surveyed as part of this inspection stated they felt very safe".
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