Research and statistics

Independent reports on the delivery of children's services from the Secretary of State’s Children’s Services Commissioner in Herefordshire.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 December 2023

Independent reports and recommendations from the commissioner for SEND services in Birmingham.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 18 May 2023

An independent report on the delivery of children's services from the Secretary of State’s Children’s Services Commissioner in Solihull.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 17 March 2023

An independent report on the delivery of children's services from the Children’s Commissioner in Sefton.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 October 2022

An independent report on options for delivering children's services from the Children’s Commissioner in North East Lincolnshire.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 June 2022

An independent report and recommendations from the Commissioner for Children's Services in Bradford.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 9 February 2022

Local authority inspection data and children's homes inspection data covering the period up until 31 August 2021

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2020/21 and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 25 November 2021

Local authority inspection data and children’s homes inspection data, covering the period up until 31 August 2020.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2019/20 and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 20 January 2021

A report and recommendations by the Commissioner for Children’s Services in West Sussex.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 10 December 2020

Local authority inspection data and children’s homes inspection data, covering the period up until 31 August 2019.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Children's social care statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 22 September 2020

An independent report and recommendations from the commissioner for children’s services in Middlesbrough.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 4 June 2020

An independent report by the Children’s Services Commissioners in Northamptonshire.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 March 2020

A summary of findings from our joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of how multi-agency partnerships respond to child exploitation.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Joint inspections of local area services
• Organisation: Care Quality Commission and 4 others
• Updated: 25 February 2020

An independent report and recommendations from the Commissioner for Children’s Services in Medway.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 10 January 2020

This report evaluates the extent to which the inspection of local authority children’s services (ILACS) framework has been implemented as intended.

• Document type: Research and analysis
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 September 2019

An independent report and recommendations from the Commissioner for Children’s Services in Northamptonshire.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 14 May 2019

An independent report and recommendations from the Commissioner for Children’s Services in Wakefield.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 December 2018

This report examines the multi-agency response to older children who are living with neglect following 6 inspections of local authority areas.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research and 1 others
• Organisation: Care Quality Commission and 3 others
• Updated: 6 July 2018

A report and recommendations by the Commissioner for Children’s Services in Croydon.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 25 January 2018

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission inspect how well local areas fulfill their 'Special educational needs and disability code of practice' duties.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Ofsted schools research
• Organisation: Care Quality Commission and 1 others
• Updated: 18 October 2017