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- 3 We check each rating before it counts towards the score.
About these ratings: accounts have confirmed an email address and declared direct involvement. Involvement has not been independently verified. Scores describe what people reported. They are not findings about the service or any worker. How ratings work
Official inspection
Ofsted
Overall effectiveness, as published
Requires improvement to be good
Short inspection in July 2025. Report published 27 August 2025.
Grades for each area
- Impact of leaders
- Requires improvement to be good
- Children who need help and protection
- Requires improvement to be good
- Children in care
- Requires improvement to be good
- Care leavers
- Requires improvement to be good
How Ofsted grades children's services
Ofsted inspects every English council's children's services. Each inspection gives an overall effectiveness grade, and a grade for leadership, for children who need help and protection, for children in care and, since 2023, for care leavers. There are four grades:
- Outstanding. The highest grade.
- Good. The standard Ofsted expects every council to meet.
- Requires improvement to be good. Not yet good, although Ofsted found no widespread or serious failures leaving children harmed or at risk of harm.
- Inadequate. Widespread or serious failures leave children harmed or at risk of harm. Ofsted then makes regular monitoring visits.
Councils graded good or outstanding usually have a shorter inspection next time. Between inspections, Ofsted makes focused visits to look at one area of practice. Visits don't give grades: Ofsted publishes a letter setting out what it found.
We copy grades exactly as Ofsted publishes them. They're separate from community ratings, and we never combine the two. How we use inspections
Official inspection
Latest Ofsted reports
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