Children's social care performance

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Domestic abuse practice not sufficiently child-focused, inspectors find

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector, Ofsted (photo from Ofsted)
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Ofsted to stop giving council children's services overall rating from April 2026

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Outsourced children's services returned to council control

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Quarter of children's services now rated outstanding by Ofsted

Yvette Stanley, Ofsted's national director for social care
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Ofsted sharpens focus on stability for children in care in judgments of providers

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Council to take children's services back in-house

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Children's services return to council control as trust is wound up

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DfE seeking 'more cost-effective' alternative to children's trusts for struggling services

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Inspectors to probe agencies' response to child victims of domestic abuse

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Social work in the 2000s: New Labour's focus on performance management

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Ofsted to scrap single-word judgments of social care services

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Children's trust to be disbanded as council takes services back in-house

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