The most recent thematic report, Effective Youth Services, offers good case studies and useful insights into why they are effective. My eye was caught by two features. One was a point that Ofsted repeats a couple of times; the other something that isn't there at all.
Ofsted suggests that "even the best services sometimes found it difficult to reconcile ... the emphasis on accreditation with simultaneous pressure to engage disaffected young people". What are inspectors implying with this ambiguous remark? That helping youth workers to focus on how they assist young people make progress in their learning is not a good idea?
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