YES - Mark Vernon, youth service manager, West Berkshire Council
As a youth service that has recently received a positive Ofsted report, we found the inspection process to be constructive, although unkind to the rainforests due to the amount of paper it produced. The actions required by Ofsted to improve our service have given us a mandate to respond to areas we had identified.
The current system of re-inspection for poor or unsatisfactory services is quite rigorous, but I do agree there needs to be a final sanction for authorities that continue to offer poor quality services to young people.
There are risks with the proposal to outsource a failing service. A local authority may see this as a way of redirecting funding, if they no longer had to support a service.
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