The order, which subjects the council to statutory intervention, was issued in April 2017 but has now been revoked following this August’s favourable Ofsted inspection report.
The service was given Ofsted’s lowest rating in 2016 and again in 2018, after it had been taken over by Together for Children.
But in the summer inspectors noted that children’s services had been “transformed” and are now “making a real difference to children’s lives”.
In a letter to Sunderland council leader Graeme Miller, children and families minister Will Quince says that Ofsted’s report “is a credit to the tenacious efforts” of the council to improve services.
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