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Yvette Stanley

Yvette Stanley is Ofsted's National Director for Social Care.

Yvette was previously Director for Children, Schools and Families at Merton Council and has 30 years of experience in children's services.

Consultation on a judgement for care leavers in our inspections of local authority children’s services

Yvette Stanley, 5 July 2022 - care leavers, children's services, inspection framework, local authorities

Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, discusses our proposal to inspect the experiences and progress of care leavers. In June we announced proposals to introduce a separate judgement about the experiences and progress of care leavers in our …

Reflecting on early help

Yvette Stanley, 10 February 2022 - Care Review, early intervention, multi-agency, partnership working

Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Regulation and Social Care, discusses findings from a recently published report by Research in Practice, commissioned by Ofsted. The term ‘early help’ is used to describe different kinds of activities, from support for parents …

Our new report on care leavers’ experiences of preparing to leave care

Yvette Stanley, 27 January 2022 - care experienced, care leavers, children looked after

Yvette Stanley discusses our new research, published last week. Last week, we were pleased to launch our report, ‘Ready or not’, on the views and experiences of children in care aged 16 and 17 and care leavers on their preparation …

Planning for leaving care: some initial thoughts from our research

Yvette Stanley, 28 October 2021 - care experienced, care leavers, children looked after

During National Care Leavers' Week, Yvette Stanley, our National Lead for Regulation and Social Care, discusses our forthcoming research publication on planning for leaving care.

Multi-building children’s homes: creating more capacity in the system

Yvette Stanley, 1 October 2021 - children's homes

Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Regulation and Social Care, explains our plans for multi-building registrations of children’s homes.

Applying to register a children’s home: top tips

Yvette Stanley, 15 September 2021 - children's homes

Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Regulation and Social Care, sets out some top tips for completing an application to register a children’s home.

The early years sector – a changing picture

Yvette Stanley and Jason Bradbury, 30 June 2021 - childminder agencies, childminders, early years

Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Regulation and Social Care, and Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director, Data and Insight, discuss our latest early years and childcare statistics.

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