Having previously provided some tips on what Ofsted will be looking for when they evaluate ‘how well children and young people are helped and protected’ and ‘the effectiveness of leaders and managers’, I will now turn my attention to ways in which homes can evidence ‘the overall experiences and progress of children and young people’.

Following on from last month’s blog, I will now provide 3 tips on what Ofsted will be looking for when they evaluate ‘how well children and young people are helped and protected’.  This is of course a limiting judgement, so if inspectors judge this area to be inadequate, then the ‘overall experiences and progress’ judgement

As we all know, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector (HMCI) devised the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF) to be used from April 2017. The SCCIF applies to inspections of the following types of provisions: Children’s homes, including secure children’s homes, independent fostering agencies, boarding schools and residential schools, voluntary adoption agencies, adoption support agencies, residential