News · 23 October 2025
Ofsted has published the findings of its latest monitoring visit of Children’s Services at Liverpool City Council. Ofsted found that there has been a significant improvement in the quality and impact of work with children in the front door and assessment teams since the last inspection of these areas in May 2023. The visit, which
A strong and fair economy for all · 7 August 2024
Ofsted has commended the continued progress of the improvement in Liverpool City Council’s Children and Young People’s Service. The findings of Ofsted’s two-day visit, conducted in July 2024, have been published and concluded that “the permanent senior leadership team is driving improvement plans at a timely pace.” They also found that: Ofsted also recognises that
News · 8 June 2023
LIVERPOOL City Council is set to welcome a new Corporate Director for Children and Young People’s Services. Jenny Turnross has this week been appointed and will come to Liverpool from Birmingham Children’s Trust where she is currently Director of Practice and has been in post since 2018. She will start work in Liverpool in August.
Blog · 25 May 2023
New elected Council Leader, Cllr Liam Robinson, has written an open letter to the people of the city following the publication of an Ofsted report which has ranked Children’s Services as inadequate.
News · 25 May 2023
Liverpool City Council has committed to tackling failings identified in an Ofsted inspection of its Children’s Services department, which has ranked the service as ‘inadequate’ overall.
News · 25 August 2022
PROVISIONAL data today shows that Liverpool’s GCSE results have improved. Liverpool’s grades reflect the national trend with students sitting the first public examinations since 2019. The proportion of students achieving Grades 4+ (C-A* in the previous grading system) in English and maths combined has increased from 2019 from 57.4 per cent to 63.9 per cent.
News · 18 August 2022
STUDENTS across Liverpool have today received the first A-Level results assessed through public examination since 2019. Grades received by the city’s young people have improved on 2019’s figures. Data was not collected in 2021 and 2021 when grades were teacher-assessed. Grades A*-C across the city are up 10.4 per cent from 2019 to 76.8 per
News · 19 November 2021
ARE you a member of one of Liverpool’s diverse communities? Have you ever thought about becoming a school governor? Liverpool City Council is committed to ensuring boards of governors represent the communities they serve and is encouraging people from diverse groups to volunteer for this satisfying role. If you would like to get involved you’ll
News · 10 August 2021
Education chiefs in Liverpool have applauded young people across Liverpool today as A-Level students receive their results – with GCSE results released on Thursday. For the second year, schooling has been disrupted by Covid-19 and this year results have been determined by teachers. In Liverpool, almost 2,400 students studied for A-levels in 2021 and 4,870
Education · 30 January 2020
A Liverpool nursery school is celebrating 20 years of being ‘outstanding’ with its sixth successive top rating from Ofsted. Staff, pupils and parents at East Prescot Road Nursery marked the school’s six “outstanding” reports from the education standards watchdog with a special party for the entire school community. Inspectors from Ofsted recently visited the nursery
Uncategorized · 27 November 2019
A West Derby school, described as “one of the best-kept secrets in Liverpool” has been praised by inspectors for its recent improvements and has achieved an overall “good” rating. Holly Lodge Girls’ College, on Mill Lane, was rated as “requires improvement” by Ofsted at its last inspection in May 2017, but now inspectors have rated
