Ofsted Visit Analysis – Page 8

Page 8 – Waiting time between SEND1 or SEND2 and AreaSEND1

Table 8.1: National waiting time since last SEND inspection at 04/02/2025

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 04/02/2025

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited
1	Sunderland	Not inspected	n/a
2	Kensington and Chelsea	Not inspected	n/a
3	Herefordshire	SEND1 – NFA	3.053
4	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	2,983
5	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,878
6	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,6
7	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,675
8	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,563
9	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,535
10	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,521
11	West Berkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,458
12	Redbridge	SEND1 – NFA	2,430
13	Wigan	SEND1 – NFA	2,423
14	Southwark	SEND1 – NFA	2,416
15	Lincolnshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,318
16=	Rochdale	SEND2	2,255
16=	Hammersmith	SEND1 – NFA	2,255
18	Ealing	SEND1 – NFA	2,206
19	Camden	SEND1 – NFA	2,157

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
2	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.458	–	11
3	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	2,045	–	27
4	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,940	–	30
5	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,898	–	32
6	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,800	–	37
7	Wokingham	SEND2	1,365	–	41
8	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,324	–	47
9	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,226	–	54
10	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,163	–	66
11	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,065	–	76
12	Kent	SEND2	861	–	89
13	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	680	25 Mar 2028	107
14	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	572	10 Jan 2025*	117
15	Surrey	AreaSEND1	498	24 Sep 2026	118
16	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	435	26 Nov 2026	125
17	Medway	AreaSEND1	365	04 Feb 2027	131
18	Milton Keynes	AreaSEND1	237	04 Mar 2027	133
19	Southampton	AreaSEND1	267	13 May 2027	140
	East Sussex	AreaSEND1	78	18 Nov 2027	151

* Ofsted have announced that planned monitoring visits will not take place

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ADCS also monitors the outcome of SEND inspections – see here for access to their spreadsheet

Ofsted’s report on SEND area inspections at 31 March 2021 is here

All the data on these pages have been produced by SESLIP analysis of information published at Ofsted’s report pages, which involves manual data transfer and is therefore subject to errors and omissions. If you spot anything that looks wrong, please contact Richard Tyndall 07880-787007