Social Care Inspector
Menaka De Silva
Active in published reports from Oct 2024 to Jul 2026.
Inspections
58
As lead
46
79% of visits
Last 12 months
26
Remits
1
Social care 58
Grades given vs. national, last 5 years
Social care51 graded by Menaka
Menaka
National
| Outstanding | 4% | 12% | -8 |
| Good | 73% | 68% | +5 |
| Requires improvement to be good | 20% | 15% | +5 |
| Inadequate | 4% | 6% | -2 |
Inspections by year
Writing style
From 51 reports, each compared with reports of the same type that got the same grade. Language only: it says nothing about the judgements themselves.
Menaka De Silva's reports read in line with others with the same grade (warmer than 76% of inspectors).
more criticaltypicalwarmer
- Tone vs peers
- +3
- Length
- +8%
- Next steps
- 5.2
- per report
- Hedged
- 4%
- of sentences
Topics that come up most in their reports
Leadership & governance 90%Progress & outcomes 84%Staff development 71%Safeguarding 66%Care & placements 59%Wellbeing & mental health 55%Curriculum 55%Teaching & assessment 47%
Area grades (report cards and judgements)
Helped and protected51
Leadership and management52
All inspections (58)
- Birmingham Children's Trust Fostering Agency31 Jul 2026 ·Independent Fostering Services, Agency performing the function(s) of LAs· Birmingham· mostly positive tone· Sarah Berry, Louise Bacon, Lydia Isaac +1Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Rowley House Family Assessment Centre20 May 2026 ·Residential Family Centre· Staffordshire· very critical tone· Lydia Isaac, Menaka De SilvaInadequate
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Assurance
- Good
- Inadequate
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- Good
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- 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
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Outstanding
- Outstanding
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Children's home run by Mangrove Care Limited in Newcastle-under-Lyme6 Nov 2024 ·Children's home· Newcastle-under-Lyme· mixed tone· Menaka De Silva, Nateisha Cardoza-EvansRI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
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