Social Care Inspector
Nichola Croft
Active in published reports from Aug 2022 to Sept 2024.
Inspections
87
As lead
72
83% of visits
Last 12 months
0
Remits
1
Social care 87
Grades given vs. national, last 5 years
Social care55 graded by Nichola
Nichola
National
| Outstanding | 5% | 12% | -6 |
| Good | 35% | 68% | -33 |
| Requires improvement to be good | 24% | 15% | +9 |
| Inadequate | 36% | 6% | +31 |
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.
Nichola Croft's reports read more critical than others with the same grade (warmer than 22% of inspectors).
more criticaltypicalwarmer
- Tone vs peers
- −7
- Length
- +6%
- Next steps
- 6.5
- per report
- Hedged
- 2%
- of sentences
Topics that come up most in their reports
Leadership & governance 93%Records & policies 85%Staff development 85%Progress & outcomes 77%Safeguarding 66%Care & placements 66%Behaviour 63%Curriculum 49%
Area grades (report cards and judgements)
Helped and protected55
Leadership and management55
All inspections (87)
- Monitoring visit
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Inadequate
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Monitoring visit
- Children's Home run by A Wilderness Way Limited in Westmorland and Furness17 Apr 2024 ·Children's Home· Westmorland and Furness· very critical tone· Judith Birchall, Nichola CroftInadequate
- Monitoring visit
- Assurance
- Good
- Assurance
- Monitoring visit
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Assurance
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- Outstanding
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Inadequate
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Outstanding
- RI to be good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Monitoring visit
- Monitoring visit
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Monitoring visit
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Good
- Children's Home run by Cumbria County Council in Westmorland and Furness14 Mar 2023 ·Children's Home· Westmorland and Furness· positive tone· Kayleigh Treanor, Nichola CroftGood
- Good
- Outstanding
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Children's Home run by A Wilderness Way Limited in Westmorland and Furness3 Feb 2023 ·Children's Home· Westmorland and Furness· very positive tone· Judith Birchall, Nichola CroftGood
- Good
- RI to be good
- Assurance
- RI to be good
- Assurance
- Inadequate
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Children's Home run by Appletree Treatment Centre Limited in Westmorland and Furness28 Sept 2022 ·Children's Home· Westmorland and Furness· mostly positive tone· Nicola Clements, Nichola CroftGood
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- Good
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