Last week's report by HM Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC), the police inspectorate, on the inconsistency of approach to rape allegations across different regional police forces, the recent drop in the number of prosecutions for rape and domestic violence, and the fact that there has not been a single prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) only add to the concern.
Since March, Iraqi officials have met Kofi Annan, the UN's secretary-general, and his inspectorate three times to discuss the inspectors' return.
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons inspectors were part-way through an inspection at Yarl's Wood when the death occurred.
Four years on, however, Laws, by then Gove's deputy, would publicly attack his boss for undermining the schools inspectorate, and a briefing war with Nick Clegg would turn the coalition's schools lunches policy into a dog's dinner.
Officials said they believed that they were in a dialogue with the developers about room sizes, before Gallagher Estates went over their head to the inspectorate.
The inspectorate says it does not routinely collect comprehensive data on these flawed inspections and to provide it to us would be too expensive.
Related: Conference makes case for ending detention of female asylum seekers The last decade has seen an oft-repeated pattern – a disturbing investigation by journalists or a damning report by a charity or independent inspectorate, generating a transient flurry of interest in those who are locked up out of sight.
If Ofsted came to be seen as a Tory inspectorate, which seemed a real danger when Great Smith Street began whispering against the real boss, the chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, then the whole proclaimed Blair-Gove missiof of imposing objective rigour would have been in trouble.
The report calls for a range of measures including higher salaries, better training, and tougher entry requirements for the teaching profession; more centralised efforts to integrate immigrants into education; and a more active approach to improving performance from the country's schools inspectorate.
Elsewhere, we reported that Scottish ministers have appointed a human rights lawyer to investigate a record level stop-and-search after a damning report by the police inspectorate.
Not as some weird Ukip-defence mechanism, but because the schools inspectorate recently dropped some schools' grades for failing to adequately demonstrate such values.
