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Agencies to get eight days' notice of joint child protection inspections

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Agencies involved in child protection work will be given eight days' notice prior to being inspected under a new joint inspection system being introduced this autumn, it has been confirmed.

Council outlines plans to hive off children's services

News

Thursday, December 10, 2015

| CYP Now

Another council has announced plans to set up an independent trust to run its struggling children's services department.

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

Features

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim of bringing a range of inspectorates together to assess how health and care services for children are delivered. Jo Stephenson assesses the learning so far.

Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

News

Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for vulnerable children and young people will launch in February, it has been announced.

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

News

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

A council's children's services department has been rated as "requires improvement" by Ofsted after inspectors found a number of areas that need to be addressed.

DfE gives ‘inadequate' council 12 months to improve

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Friday, May 20, 2016

| CYP Now

A council where children's services were rated "inadequate" by Ofsted amid "serious issues of concern" has been told by the Department for Education that it has 12 months to deliver improvements.

Ofsted to visit inadequate councils every three months

News

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

| CYP Now

Ofsted will begin visiting councils with inadequate children's services every three months as part of a shake-up of how struggling local authorities are reinspected.

Liverpool City Council praised over ‘effective’ pandemic response

News

Thursday, September 23, 2021

| CYP Now

Ofsted has praised Liverpool City Council's “well-coordinated and effective” response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Spielman rejects notion of Ofsted split

News

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

| CYP Now

Ofsted will not be split into separate inspectorates for children's social care and education, the organisation's chief inspector Amanda Spielmann has told MPs.

Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' amid concerns over leadership

News

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

| CYP Now

A council has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted after inspectors found "serious and widespread failures" across children's services and questioned the integrity of its leadership team.

Children's services trust set to cost £4.6m

News

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

| CYP Now

The creation of an independent trust as part of efforts to improve children's services in Worcestershire will cost around £4.6m, it has emerged.

Improved support for care leavers at 'inadequate' council earns Ofsted praise

News

Monday, February 13, 2017

| CYP Now

Ofsted has praised action taken by a children's services department to improve services for care leavers in the two years since it was rated "inadequate".

Council criticised over death of child on special guardianship order

News

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

| CYP Now

A children's services department has been criticised for a raft of failures in their handling of the case of an 18-month-old girl, who was murdered after being placed with a family member through a special guardianship order (SGO).

Ofsted praises progress at council preparing to launch children's services mutual

News

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

| CYP Now

A council where children's services are to be taken over by a mutual next month has been praised for improvements to the way it protects vulnerable children.

Behind the Inspection Ratings: Safeguarding in schools

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

| CYP Now

Ofsted inspections show the majority of maintained schools have effective safeguarding arrangements in place, but there are concerns about standards in some faith-based schools and the independent sector.

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Agencies to get eight days' notice of joint child protection inspections

Council outlines plans to hive off children's services

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

Ofsted tells council to improve children's services

DfE gives ‘inadequate' council 12 months to improve

Ofsted to visit inadequate councils every three months

Liverpool City Council praised over ‘effective’ pandemic response

Spielman rejects notion of Ofsted split

Ofsted rates council 'inadequate' amid concerns over leadership

Children's services trust set to cost £4.6m

Improved support for care leavers at 'inadequate' council earns Ofsted praise

Council criticised over death of child on special guardianship order

Ofsted praises progress at council preparing to launch children's services mutual

Behind the Inspection Ratings: Safeguarding in schools

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