Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, celebrates foster carers’ invaluable contribution to the lives of the children they care for. This Foster Care Fortnight, as ever, we take our collective hats off to all foster carers, for the …
Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Regulation and Social Care, considers the recent All-Party Parliamentary Group Spotlight Inquiry and reflects on how independent visitors can be an important source of lasting friendship and support for children in care. We have …
The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care published its Case for Change on 17 June, having heard evidence from hundreds of people working with children and families, and from even more with lived experience of children’s social care. This builds on the huge response to its earlier calls for …
Yvette Stanley, National Director for Regulation and Social Care, talks about our children's social care visits that will start this Autumn.
Marking World Social Work Day, Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, talks about the importance of great leadership in children's social care.
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, discusses how Ofsted looks at the response to children who are at risk outside the family home.
Our National Director for Social Care, Yvette Stanley, talks about domestic abuse and the findings from our latest joint inspections.
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, discusses our ILACS implementation review.
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, talks about why effective social work at the ‘pre-proceedings’ stage (the period before court proceedings begin in applications for care orders) is so important, and what our inspections tell us about it.
National Director for Social Care, Yvette Stanley, discusses why good case recording is so important.