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 12/7/2024

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 12/7/2024

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	2,972
4	North Yorkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,937
5	Herefordshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,846
6	Derbyshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,797
7=	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	2,776
7=	East Sussex	SEND1 – NFA	2,776
9	Southampton	SEND1 – NFA	2,713
10	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,671
11	Barking and Dagenham	SEND1 – NFA	2,664
12	Lewisham	SEND1 – NFA	2,475
13	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,468
14	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,419
15=	Wiltshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,356
15=	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,356
17	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,328
18	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,314
19	West Berkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,251

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	East Sussex	SEND1 NFA	2,776	–	7=
2	Southampton	SEND1 NFA	2,713	–	9
3	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.251	–	19
4	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	1,838	–	36
5	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,733	–	39
6	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,691	–	41
7	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,593	–	48
8	Wokingham	SEND2	1,158	–	52
9	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,117	–	58
10	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,019	–	66
11	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	956	–	79
12	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	858	–	93
13	Kent	SEND2	654	–	106
14	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	473	25 Mar 2028	124
15	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	365	10 Jan 2025	134
16	Surrey	AreaSEND1	291	24 Sep 2026	135
17	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	228	26 Nov 2026	142
18	Medway	AreaSEND1	158	04 Feb 2027	148
19	Milton Keynes	AreaSEND1	130	04 Mar 2027	150

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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