I cannot
be alone in feeling a sense to deep unease about the latest statistics from
Ofsted, covering the period from November 2013 - June 2015.
These show that their inspections rate NO councils in England as
'outstanding' for children's services and only a quarter as 'good'. More than
half required improvement and depressingly a quarter were found to be
inadequate.
|
|
No.
|
%
|
|
Outstanding
|
0
|
0
|
|
Good
|
14
|
24
|
|
Requires improvement
|
31
|
53
|
|
Inadequate
|
14
|
24
|
|
Total
|
59
|
101
|
You can
read the full report at:
A good
summary is in Children
and Young People Now.
Whatever way you look at it, something is very wrong here. Either there is widespread poor performance or there is an inspection regime that is inappropriately finding poor performance. Yet you can bet your bottom dollar that politicians will not say a great deal about these statistics and that Ofsted will not offer any consistent or plausible explanation of what the causes of poor performance are.
The more I think about it, the more I tend to the conclusion that the Ofsted inspection regime is one that finds fault but does not point to how to improve. That's just the kind of inspection regime we don't want.
