Agenda item

Ofsted Updates - Verbal update from Head of Children's Social Care / Head of Early Help, Vulnerable Children and Inclusion

Minutes:

The Head of Children’s Social Care updated the Panel that recent Ofsted Inspections rated Elderhirst Children’s Home as ‘good’ and Hudson House Children’s Home as ‘outstanding’. The Head of Children’s Social Care and the Head of Early Help, Inclusion and Vulnerable Children thanked the Strategic Manager for Children’s Homes, the Registered Managers of the homes and all the staff, who had worked hard to achieve these good outcomes. 

 

Inspections had taken place at Park House, Hickstead Rise and Aycliffe Secure Centre and the outcomes would be reported in due course.