multi-agency
Back in 2018, we first set out the ingredients of effective multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, using what we had seen working well in our reviews and inspections. Over time, through our inspections, we’ve learned more about what the most effective arrangements …
The Department for Education (DfE) has published a policy paper on its proposals to reform children’s social care. This is a significant opportunity for the government, the sector and Ofsted to better serve the nation’s most vulnerable children. We have …
As we begin another Foster Care Fortnight, I want to again offer our rightful appreciation to the people providing incredible yet often unremarked-on foster care to tens of thousands of children every year.
Fostering a child is an incredibly generous and selfless thing to do even in the best of circumstances. But in the tough context we currently live in, it is a remarkable act.
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 …
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, discusses the important role of adult mental health services as part of the multi-agency approach to helping and protecting children.
