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 25/7/2024

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 25/7/2024

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited
1	Sunderland	Not inspected	n/a
2	Kensington and Chelsea	Not inspected	n/a
3	Bolton	SEND1 – NFA	2,983
4	North Yorkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,948
5	Herefordshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,857
6	Derbyshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,808
7=	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	2,787
7=	East Sussex	SEND1 – NFA	2,787
9	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,682
10	Barking and Dagenham	SEND1 – NFA	2,675
11	Lewisham	SEND1 – NFA	2,486
12	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,479
13	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,430
14=	Wiltshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,367
14=	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,367
16	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,339
17	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,325
18	West Berkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,262
19	Redbridge	SEND1 – NFA	2,234

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	East Sussex	SEND1 NFA	2,787	–	7=
2	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.262	–	18
3	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	1,849	–	35
4	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,744	–	38
5	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,702	–	40
6	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,604	–	47
7	Wokingham	SEND2	1,169	–	51
8	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,128	–	57
9	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,030	–	65
10	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	967	–	77
11	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	869	–	90
12	Kent	SEND2	665	–	103
13	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	484	25 Mar 2028	121
14	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	376	10 Jan 2025	131
15	Surrey	AreaSEND1	302	24 Sep 2026	132
16	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	239	26 Nov 2026	139
17	Medway	AreaSEND1	169	04 Feb 2027	145
18	Milton Keynes	AreaSEND1	141	04 Mar 2027	147
19	Southampton	AreaSEND1	71	13 May 2027	152

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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