Inspections of Children’s Services
Barnet’s Children’s Service is regularly inspected to ensure that we are delivering high quality services to children, young people and their families.
Overall rating
Every year Ofsted (external link) look at how well we are performing against national indicators, the results of inspections of parts of our service, and our key service documents. They give us a rating from ‘performs poorly’ (1) to ‘performs excellently’ (4).
In 2011 Barnet Children’s Service received an ‘excellent’ (4) rating. The letter from Ofsted can be seen here:
- Children's Service annual rating 2011
(PDF: 59KB).
Detailed inspections
Every three years (sometimes more when changes are made to the way inspections are carried out) detailed inspections, known as Joint Area Reviews (JAR), are made of our services. Reports for the most recent inspections, made in May 2006, are below:
- Joint Area Review of services for children and young people (longer version) (PDF: 273KB)
- Joint Area Review of services for children and young people (shorter, children’s version) (PDF: 95KB)
- Enhanced youth inspection report on the Barnet Youth Service (PDF: 71KB)
Below is Barnet's action plan to address the recommendations contained in the inspection reports:
- Post JAR action plan (PDF: 150KB).
The first part of the social care process, when people make contact with the local authority, is inspected every year. It is called the ‘Unannounced inspection of contact, referral and assessment services' (PDF 51KB). Barnet did well in 2010, with no areas for priority action.
Other inspections
Detailed inspections of the services we provide to children are also carried out:
- Inspection reports for schools, further education colleges, safeguarding and social care (external link)
- Inspections of our youth offending team (external link).
Reference copies are available for viewing from our libraries. They can also be requested from Val White by using the contact details on the left.
Barnet services directory for young people, children and their families.
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