Social Care Inspector
Dean Wilton
Active in published reports from Jun 2019 to Sept 2025.
Inspections
143
As lead
115
80% of visits
Last 12 months
0
Remits
2
Social care 142 · Other 1
Grades given vs. national, last 5 years
Social care81 graded by Dean
Dean
National
| Outstanding | 7% | 12% | -4 |
| Good | 60% | 68% | -7 |
| Requires improvement to be good | 23% | 15% | +9 |
| Inadequate | 9% | 6% | +3 |
Inspections by year
Writing style
From 96 reports, each compared with reports of the same type that got the same grade. Language only: it says nothing about the judgements themselves.
Dean Wilton's reports read more critical than others with the same grade (warmer than 21% of inspectors).
more criticaltypicalwarmer
- Tone vs peers
- −7
- Length
- +17%
- Next steps
- 5.9
- per report
- Hedged
- 4%
- of sentences
Topics that come up most in their reports
Leadership & governance 92%Staff development 81%Safeguarding 69%Records & policies 66%Progress & outcomes 66%Teaching & assessment 62%Care & placements 61%Health & safety 50%
Area grades (report cards and judgements)
Helped and protected96
Leadership and management96
All inspections (143)
- Inadequate
- Children's Home run by Acorn Residential Care Ltd in Staffordshire16 Jan 2025 ·Children's Home· Staffordshire· very critical tone· Louise Naylor, Dean Wilton, Sonia SullivanInadequate
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Report
- Outstanding
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Children's Home, Residential special school run by Amberleigh Care Limited in Shropshire5 Jun 2024 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Shropshire· mostly positive tone· Dean Wilton, Sonia SullivanGood
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
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- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Outstanding
- Good
- Assurance
- Good
- Assurance
- Horton Lodge7 Dec 2023 ·Residential Special School· Staffordshire· very positive tone· Dean Wilton, Sam Dulay-KainthGood
- Good
- Good
- Children's Home, Residential special school run by Amberleigh Care Limited in Shropshire25 Oct 2023 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Shropshire· positive tone· Dean Wilton, Kev BrammerGood
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- RI to be good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Horton Lodge2 Feb 2023 ·Residential Special School· Staffordshire· very positive tone· Dean Wilton, Dave CarriganOutstanding
- Assurance
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Outstanding
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Walton Hall15 Sept 2022 ·Residential Special School· Staffordshire· very positive tone· Dave Carrigan, Dean WiltonOutstanding
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Assurance
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Haberdashers Adams12 May 2022 ·Boarding School· Telford and Wrekin· mostly positive tone· Dave Carrigan, Dean Wilton, Michelle SpruceGood
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Inspection
- Monitoring visit
- Loxley Hall3 Mar 2022 ·Residential Special School· Staffordshire· very positive tone· Dave Carrigan, Dean WiltonOutstanding
- RI to be good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Inspection
- Good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Diverse Fostering Limited26 Nov 2021 ·Independent Fostering Services· Stoke-on-Trent· mostly positive tone· Dean Wilton, Kevin BrammerGood
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
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