The first local authorities to be inspected under the joint area reviews of services for children and young people are Bournemouth, Calderdale, Enfield, Herefordshire, Slough, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Wirral.
Services will get an "enhanced youth inspection" on top of the area review, unless they are one of the 48 inspected in the latest Ofsted youth service inspections, which began in 2004.
Ofsted, which is leading the nine inspectorates conducting the new reviews, said a youth service report will be published alongside the new reviews when a youth service has not been inspected in the last round.
David Bell, chief inspector of schools, said he was confident the new reviews, two-thirds of which include enhanced coverage of youth services, will detect problems in service provision.
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