Ofsted highlighted two areas for special praise in Derbyshire County Council's children's services unannounced inspection last autumn: the out-of-hours service and the disability team.
However, assistant director Ian Johnson is not one to shy away from the challenges facing his authority's safeguarding team.
Asked about those lauded areas of the authority's work, he defers answering in order to first tackle the tougher points raised by inspectors over less successful areas.
"The inspection was a reasonable reflection of where we are," says Johnson, who is the executive responsible for safeguarding within Derbyshire. "We've got a mix of truly outstanding areas, and some challenges in terms of areas of development."
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