Goldington Family Centre manages a small group of children’s centres. The group was inspected as a group in October 2013 under the relatively new arrangements for group inspections of centres and were judged to be inadequate. Much of the focus of the inspectors’ comments on areas for improvement was on the perceived lack of data, information and evidence to enable effective needs assessment and target setting, early identification of the needs of the children in most need and tracking of the impact of services and activities.
We provided some short term focussed support to put in place to:
We were delighted that after our support Goldington achieved a ‘Good’ in their most recent inspection.