Social Care Inspector
Sarah McGow
Active in published reports from Nov 2024 to Sept 2026.
Inspections
55
As lead
39
71% of visits
Last 12 months
24
Remits
1
Social care 55
Grades given vs. national, last 5 years
Social care41 graded by Sarah
Sarah
National
| Outstanding | 29% | 12% | +18 |
| Good | 56% | 68% | -12 |
| Requires improvement to be good | 5% | 15% | -10 |
| Inadequate | 10% | 6% | +4 |
Inspections by year
Writing style
From 41 reports, each compared with reports of the same type that got the same grade. Language only: it says nothing about the judgements themselves.
Sarah McGow's reports read in line with others with the same grade (warmer than 31% of inspectors).
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- Tone vs peers
- −5
- Length
- −11%
- Next steps
- 3.1
- per report
- Hedged
- 3%
- of sentences
Topics that come up most in their reports
Progress & outcomes 84%Leadership & governance 80%Staff development 64%Safeguarding 44%Wellbeing & mental health 42%Records & policies 40%Teaching & assessment 40%Parents & families 40%
Area grades (report cards and judgements)
Helped and protected41
Leadership and management41
All inspections (55)
- Monitoring visit
- Monitoring visit
- Inadequate
- Monitoring visit
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- Good
- Outstanding
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Partly verifiedOutstanding
- Monitoring visit
- Outstanding
- Good
- Outstanding
- Assurance
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Outstanding
- Good
- Good
Show all 55 inspections
- Assurance
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Outstanding
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Outstanding
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Outstanding
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Good
- Outstanding
- Outstanding
- Outstanding
- Outstanding
- Children's Home, Residential special school run by The National Autistic Society in Barnsley4 Dec 2024 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Barnsley· critical tone· Gina Lightfoot, Sarah McGowRI to be good
- Good
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