Issue details

Ofsted will:

? review the evidence bases for its most recent inspections of local authority children’s services (ILACS) and joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) for the 10 local authorities that make up Greater Manchester and aggregate the relevant findings on:

a. Child criminal exploitation
b. Child sexual exploitation
c. Leadership and oversight of exploitation work

? provide an overview report that aggregates the findings from the most recent relevant local authority children’s services inspections into an overview of practice in relation to exploitation across Greater Manchester.

The coverage of child sexual and criminal exploitation will vary according to lines of enquiry for each local authority inspection, monitoring visit or the subject for each focused visit. No additional inspection activity will be undertaken.

Once Ofsted has produced and quality assured the draft overview report, it will share it with the 10 local authorities for the purpose of factual accuracy checking. GMCA and HMICFRS will also receive a copy of the draft report.

All parties to the inspection will be required to maintain confidentiality until the final report is published.

The final version of the report will be published by GMCA by June 2025.

The GMCA will have sole publication rights to the final report, however, Ofsted’s expectation is that the report that GMCA publish will not be an amended version of the final report provided by Ofsted or be published in part, to retain the integrity of the contents of the report.