Report: Ofsted and Children's Services: What Factors are Associated with Inspection Results?
Published by: British Journal of Social Work, March 2019
SUMMARY
The results of an Ofsted inspection can have a huge impact on local authority children's services. Services judged "inadequate" can be subject to mandatory intervention by the Department for Education (DfE). Even in less extreme cases a poor Ofsted judgment can have a significant negative impact. A 2015 Local Government Association report found that when a department is judged to be "inadequate" or "requires improvement", it tends to suffer "an accelerated decline".
Researchers from Cardiff University wanted to find out what factors were most strongly associated with Ofsted judgments. They explored the relationship between Ofsted ratings and a range of factors around finance, spending, levels of deprivation and performance across 87 English local authorities. Sources included local authority budget returns and key performance indicators collated by the DfE.
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