Guidance

Inspecting local authority children's services: single inspection framework guidance

These documents have been withdrawn because they are no longer current.

• From: Ofsted
• Published: 23 April 2014
• Last updated: 29 November 2017 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 14 September 2018

Ofsted has replaced this guidance with a new inspection framework for the inspection of local authority children’s services.

Applies to England

Documents

[Withdrawn] Inspection handbook: inspections of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers

PDF, 1.65 MB, 111 pages

[Withdrawn] Inspection handbook: inspections of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers

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[Withdrawn] Will you help us with our inspection Information for children and young people

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[Wtihdrawn] Will you help us with our inspection Information for children and young people

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Details

Ofsted will use the single inspection framework (SIF) for some re-inspections of inadequate children’s services. From 2018 Ofsted will use a new framework and guidance for most inspections of local authority children’s services (ILACS).

The handbook should be read alongside Ofsted’s single inspection framework.

This page includes ‘Will you help us with our inspection? Information for children and young people’.

Published 23 April 2014
Last updated 29 November 2017 + show all updates

1. 29 November 2017

   Updates to the inspection handbook: removed sections about the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) review, added guidance on re-inspection and updated Annex A child-level data guidance.

2. 10 February 2017

   New Annexes E and F; additional guidance on ‘information about the local authority’ within Annex A.

3. 6 October 2015

   Updated report writing guidance for inspectors (new Annex M); updated terms of reference for the consistency panel para 203 to 211.

4. 1 September 2015

   Handbook updated to provide guidance on: local authorities who have delegated their functions; scheduling LSCB reviews; inspector deployment and timetable; report writing.

5. 16 June 2015

   Published changes document with June 2015 changes to the handbook.

6. 1 June 2015

   Handbook updated: changes outline revised arrangements for the days when inspectors are onsite and provide new tools to help inspectors, local authority and LSCB carry out the inspection more efficiently.

7. 12 December 2014

   The handbook was updated in December 2014: the changes document explains what was updated.

8. 23 April 2014

   First published.