The inspectorate’s revised inspection framework of child protection, published today (31 January), will double the number of local authority case files that inspectors scrutinise and will attempt to impose greater focus on children’s experiences.
Inspectors will shadow social workers during the two-week inspections and talk directly to children and families.
Ofsted deputy chief inspector John Goldup said: "For the first time in our child protection inspections, we’ll be talking to children and their families directly and shadowing social workers in their day-to-day work. This will be a very important part of the evidence that inspectors will use.
"We won’t just look at what happens to children when they become subject to formal child protection processes – it’s just as important to evaluate the help that children and their families do or don’t get early on, when problems first emerge, because that can make a critical difference to whether the problems get worse and the risks to the child escalate."
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