Under this new framework only four services got a "good" verdict last year: Norfolk, Sutton, Derby City and Surrey.
Harriet Gore, manager of The National Youth Agency (NYA) programme that provides consultancy support to services that received a poor Ofsted report, says: "I don't think it was so much that Ofsted gave them a hard time, rather that youth services were going through a change period that they are only now starting to come through."
Her words are backed up by initial findings from the new Joint Area Reviews (JARs) that subsumed youth service inspections last September (see box).
Of the six reviews so far published, three youth services have been given good ratings, two were considered adequate and only one poor.
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