Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Members were provided with a summary of the outcome of the Ofsted

inspection of the City of London’s services for children in need of help and

protection, children looked after and care leavers in July 2016, carried out under

section 136 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.

The effectiveness of children’s services in the City of London was judged overall to

be „Good? with a number of “Outstanding? features. The individual judgements were

as follows:

· The experience and progress of children who need help and protection is

„Good?.

· The experience and progress of children looked after and achieving

permanence is „Good?.

· The experience and progress of care leavers is „Good?.

· Leadership, management and governance in the City of London is

„Outstanding?.

The City of London is the sixth local authority in London to receive an overall “Good?

judgement for its children’s services, out of 22 London local authorities inspected so

far. The City of London is also one of six local authorities in England to receive a

judgement of “Outstanding? for its leadership, management and governance.

The Committee congratulated Officers and their teams respectively. It was agreed that a report regarding the OFSTED inspection results would be submitted to the Court of Common Council meeting in December 2016.

Resolved – that the update be received.