Frequently asked questions: Children and young people

Children and young people questions

• Question: Why was the Council inspected by Ofsted?

• Question: What does the Ofsted inspection cover?

• Question: How have you retained your Outstanding judgement?

• Question: Does this mean your schools are outstanding?

• Question: What does the inspection say about your work to tackle sexual exploitation?

  Answer:

  The report says “Children benefit from an experienced team of specialist exploitation workers in the CATE team who provide an exceptional service for children when they are exploited or at risk of exploitation. They skilfully build relationships with children and their families, which supports the reduction of risk and improvement in children’s experiences. This includes disruption activity and referral to the National Referral Mechanism. An innovative and effective multi-agency transition panel plans services and interventions for children into adulthood”.

  “When concerns about children involve risk of exploitation, they are screened promptly. Consultation offered by the Children Abused Through Exploitation (CATE) team provides additional advice to inform analysis”.

  “When children go missing from home or from care, they are offered timely return home interviews. There is effective engagement of children by the specialist CATE team in this process, which enables them to explore the push-and-pull factors for children. Through detailed direct work, social workers explore children’s feelings about where they want to live. For some children, this has resulted in them moving and incidents of going missing have stopped”.

  “The impressive response to the child exploitation enquiry has made sure that services for children at risk of exploitation in Telford and Wrekin are now coherent and effective.”