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Ofsted: Requires improvement to be good Standard inspection, December 2022; See the inspection

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Official inspection

Ofsted

Inspection of local authority children's services (ILACS)

Overall effectiveness, as published

Requires improvement to be good

Standard inspection in December 2022. Report published 1 February 2023.

Ofsted has published a newer inspection report

Ofsted published a report on 28 July 2026. Its grades will appear here when Ofsted next updates its yearly statistics. Read the newer report (PDF)

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: Good

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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.

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Source: Local authority inspection outcomes as at 31 March 2026, Ofsted official statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. These outcomes are about the service as a whole, not any individual worker.

Official inspection

Latest Ofsted reports

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Last checked for new reports on 9 October 2026.

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