Department for Education Commissioner Report by Peter Dwyer, CBE

"Audit completion is 100% in some areas ( for example in Early Help.) Whilst more progress is needed in some areas the Audit to Excellence capacity has been extended for a further 12 month period to support the embedding and extension of this highly impressive model."

What Has Ofsted  Stated About the work of  Audit to Excellence in its support of its partners?

"A particular strength is the auditing process which provides a wide and in-depth coverage of the quality of services." 

Ofsted Monitoring Visit

Ofsted's commentary states "The Audit to Excellence quality assurance programme is strong and is enabling leaders and managers to have a clear and detailed eye on the quality of practice as well as performance. A comprehensive audit tool is well designed to conduct in-depth and detailed collaborative reviews of children’s cases."

Ofsted Monitoring Visit

"Leaders have introduced and built on the comprehensive Audit to Excellence programme.  The Audit to Excellence framework successfully builds in learning from audit, with clear links to individual team planning, wider service improvements and performance clinics. Social workers and early help practitioners provided inspectors with examples of how they had made positive changes to their practice as a result of their learning from audit..."

Feedback From Some Of Those Who Have Experienced the Audit to Excellence Programme

"I feel I have really opened myself up to learning and change. I have always been open to this to a large extent but perhaps I had become a little stuck in my ways whereas now I feel an energy around proving that we are ‘Good’ by making the necessary improvements."

"Audit to Excellence has supported me as a Head of Service to have a direct line of sight onto Early Help’s practice. I have a clearer understanding of the exact areas we need to focus on to improve."

"It was just the beginning and there is a lot more to do on this but Audit to Excellence was helpful in encouraging us to appreciate our strengths and what we need to focus on, i.e. our priorities."

"As a manager, a number of recommendations were made that I can easily put into practice but that had not been part of my practice previously. I can see the importance of a number of those recommendations. Also I have picked up on a number of issues that I can support my staff with to help them record more effectively."