Social Care Inspector
Gary Smithson
Active in published reports from Jun 2025 to Sept 2026.
Inspections
44
As lead
33
75% of visits
Last 12 months
29
Remits
1
Social care 44
Grades given vs. national, last 5 years
Social care29 graded by Gary
Gary
National
| Outstanding | 14% | 12% | +2 |
| Good | 62% | 68% | -6 |
| Requires improvement to be good | 10% | 15% | -4 |
| Inadequate | 14% | 6% | +8 |
Inspections by year
Writing style
From 28 reports, each compared with reports of the same type that got the same grade. Language only: it says nothing about the judgements themselves.
Gary Smithson's reports read more critical than others with the same grade (warmer than 6% of inspectors).
more criticaltypicalwarmer
- Tone vs peers
- −22
- Length
- −2%
- Next steps
- 4.3
- per report
- Hedged
- 5%
- of sentences
Topics that come up most in their reports
Leadership & governance 66%Progress & outcomes 64%Safeguarding 52%Behaviour 50%Staff development 45%Wellbeing & mental health 41%Teaching & assessment 39%Care & placements 39%
Area grades (report cards and judgements)
Helped and protected29
Leadership and management29
All inspections (44)
- Good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- Outstanding
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Inadequate
- Assurance
- Monitoring visit
- Assurance
- Partly verifiedOutstanding
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Assurance
- Monitoring visit
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- Outstanding
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Good
- Assurance
- Good
- Assurance
- Monitoring visit
- Outstanding
- Inadequate
- Assurance
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Inadequate
Where they've inspected
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