Ofsted reports published in March 2019
A round-up of the Ofsted reports of children's services published during March 2019.
Swindon makes progress in care leavers’ services
Swindon children’s services has made some progress for care leavers’ services in most of the areas for improvement highlighted in the last inspection, Ofsted has said.
Senior leaders have a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses [...]
Multi-Disciplinary Family Assessment: balancing risks and needs
Multi-Disciplinary Family Assessment: balancing risks and needs.
Mark Willis, Chief Executive of WillisPalmer discusses the launch of an innovative community-based assessment model.
Assessment is one of the core defining processes of what social workers do in their work and is an integral part of social work practice.
Assessment of parenting capacity is a particularly complex area of social [...]
Ofsted notes deterioration at Newham and issues inadequate rating
There has been a significant deterioration in children’s services at the London Borough of Newham since the last Ofsted inspection in 2014, the inspectorate has warned.
Inadequate progress has been made in response to the areas of improvement identified in the previous inspection and in the focused visit of 2018. Significant practice deficits remain in key [...]
New bespoke model of social work at South Tyneside
A bespoke model of social work practice to better support children in need of help and protection has been introduced at South Tyneside, Ofsted has said.
At the last Ofsted inspection of children’s services in November 2017, the local authority was judged to be good overall. The continual improvement of performance and quality assurance systems means [...]
Ofsted praises improved stability in workforce at Darlington
A stable and motivated workforce has been established at Darlington borough council, according to Ofsted.
A focused visit of the local authority's children's service found that since the last Ofsted inspection in March 2018 - when children's services were judged to be 'requires improvement to be good' - a stable and committed senior leadership team combined [...]
Expert's Corner: Dr Anna Preston
Clinical psychologist Dr Anna Preston talks to Clare Jerrom about carrying out parenting assessments in an ethical, timely and multi-disciplinary way.
The benefit of having multi-agency meetings at the beginning of an assessment means families are not subjected to numerous assessments with multiple professionals over a lengthy time period while parenting abilities are established, which means [...]
