Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with Ofsted on (a) the adequacy of the performance of children's social care services in England and (b) steps to improve standards among those agencies.
Ministers and officials at the department meet representatives of Ofsted frequently to discuss the delivery of local authority-run children’s services. I last had such a discussion with Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector in February of this year.