Social Care Inspector
Sophie Hills
Active in published reports from Jun 2021 to Aug 2026.
Inspections
124
As lead
100
81% of visits
Last 12 months
11
Remits
1
Social care 124
Grades given vs. national, last 5 years
Social care85 graded by Sophie
Sophie
National
| Outstanding | 2% | 12% | -9 |
| Good | 65% | 68% | -3 |
| Requires improvement to be good | 24% | 15% | +9 |
| Inadequate | 9% | 6% | +4 |
Inspections by year
Writing style
From 99 reports, each compared with reports of the same type that got the same grade. Language only: it says nothing about the judgements themselves.
Sophie Hills's reports read more critical than others with the same grade (warmer than 6% of inspectors).
more criticaltypicalwarmer
- Tone vs peers
- −22
- Length
- +12%
- Next steps
- 6.2
- per report
- Hedged
- 3%
- of sentences
Topics that come up most in their reports
Staff development 94%Leadership & governance 91%Care & placements 80%Records & policies 72%Teaching & assessment 70%Health & safety 65%Behaviour 60%Progress & outcomes 55%
Area grades (report cards and judgements)
Helped and protected99
Leadership and management99
All inspections (124)
- Children's Home, Residential special school run by Rowden House School Limited in Herefordshire5 Aug 2026 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Herefordshire· positive tone· Dawn Bennett, Sophie HillsGood
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Children's Home, Residential special school run by Rowden House School Limited in Herefordshire12 Jun 2024 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Herefordshire· mostly positive tone· Debbie Bond, Louise Battersby, Sophie HillsGood
- Inadequate
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
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- Good
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Inadequate
- Inadequate
- RI to be good
- Children's Home, Residential special school run by Overley Hall Limited in Telford and Wrekin2 Nov 2023 ·Children's Home, Residential special school· Telford and Wrekin· mixed tone· Debbie Bond, Louise Battersby, Sophie HillsGood
- Children's home run by Unity Residential Care Services Limited in Newcastle-under-Lyme26 Oct 2023 ·Children's home· Newcastle-under-Lyme· very critical tone· Sam Dulay-Kainth, Sophie HillsInadequate
- Match Foster Care20 Oct 2023 ·Independent Fostering Services· Worcestershire· very positive tone· Lydia Isaac, Sophie HillsOutstanding
- Good
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Children's home run by Sunfield Children’s Homes Limited in Bromsgrove27 Jul 2023 ·Children's home· Bromsgrove· mixed tone· Debbie Bond, Dawn Bennett, Louise Battersby +1Good
- Good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Children's Home run by Lakeside @ Our Place Limited in Worcestershire18 Apr 2023 ·Children's Home· Worcestershire· mostly positive tone· Sophie Hills, Glenis Staiger-GrantGood
- Good
- Assurance
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Assurance
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Inadequate
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Assurance
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Inadequate
- Inspection
- Inspection
- Monitoring visit
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- Inspection
- Good
- Inadequate
- Good
- Monitoring visit
- RI to be good
- Monitoring visit
- Inspection
- RI to be good
- Outstanding
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
- Good
- Good
- Children's home run by Unity Residential Care Services Limited in Newcastle-under-Lyme14 Jul 2021 ·Children's home· Newcastle-under-Lyme· mixed tone· Sophie Hills, Sarah Junor-FitzpatrickGood
- Outstanding
- Good
- RI to be good
- Good
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