Social Care Inspector
Kirsty Truesdale
Active in published reports from Nov 2022 to Sept 2026.
Inspections
62
As lead
46
74% of visits
Last 12 months
24
Remits
2
Social care 61 · Other 1
Grades given vs. national, last 5 years
Social care56 graded by Kirsty
Kirsty
National
| Outstanding | 4% | 12% | -8 |
| Good | 88% | 68% | +20 |
| Requires improvement to be good | 7% | 15% | -8 |
| Inadequate | 2% | 6% | -4 |
Inspections by year
Writing style
From 55 reports, each compared with reports of the same type that got the same grade. Language only: it says nothing about the judgements themselves.
Kirsty Truesdale's reports read more critical than others with the same grade (warmer than 25% of inspectors).
more criticaltypicalwarmer
- Tone vs peers
- −6
- Length
- −9%
- Next steps
- 3.8
- per report
- Hedged
- 3%
- of sentences
Topics that come up most in their reports
Staff development 87%Leadership & governance 74%Progress & outcomes 69%Safeguarding 66%Care & placements 61%Teaching & assessment 52%Communication & language 50%Behaviour 48%
Area grades (report cards and judgements)
Helped and protected56
Leadership and management56
All inspections (62)
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Report
- Lower Roach End Farm8 Jul 2026 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Staffordshire· positive tone· Kirsty Truesdale, Shabana WarneGood
- Good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
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- Good
- Good
- Children's home run by Sunfield Children’s Homes Limited in Bromsgrove11 Sept 2025 ·Children's home· Bromsgrove· positive tone· Louise Naylor, Kirsty Truesdale, Menaka De SilvaGood
- Assurance
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Lower Roach End Farm4 Jun 2025 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Staffordshire· mostly positive tone· Kirsty TruesdaleGood
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Good
- Outstanding
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Children's Home run by Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company in Birmingham23 Oct 2024 ·Children's Home· Birmingham· critical tone· Lydia Isaac, Kirsty Truesdale, Marianne GrandfieldRI to be good
- Outstanding
- Children's home run by Oracle Care Limited in Central Bedfordshire9 Oct 2024 ·Children's home· Central Bedfordshire· mostly positive tone· Kirsty Truesdale, Helen DunnGood
- Good
- Good
- Lower Roach End Farm20 Jun 2024 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Staffordshire· positive tone· Helen Dunn, Kirsty TruesdaleGood
- Good
- Good
- Good
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