The London borough's children's services department was handed Ofsted's lowest rating in April 2017 after children were found to be at risk of harm, but the latest inspection has judged the service to be good across all areas.
The 2017 downgrade came 13 months after Ofsted's former national director for social care Debbie Jones took over permanently as the borough's director of children's services.
The improved rating, published today (22 July), follows a monitoring visit made by the inspectorate in March which found that children at risk of immediate harm were being responded to swiftly.
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