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 21/02/2025

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 21/02/2025

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited
1	Sunderland	Not inspected	n/a
2	Kensington and Chelsea	Not inspected	n/a
3	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	3,000
4	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,895
5	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,692
6	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,643
7	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,580
8	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,552
9	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,538
10	West Berkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,475
11	Redbridge	SEND1 – NFA	2,447
12	Wigan	SEND1 – NFA	2,440
13	Southwark	SEND1 – NFA	2,433
14	Lincolnshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,335
15=	Rochdale	SEND2	2,272
15=	Hammersmith	SEND1 – NFA	2,272
17	Ealing	SEND1 – NFA	2,223
18=	Camden	SEND1 – NFA	2,174
18=	Calderdale	SEND1 – NFA	2,174

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.475	–	10
2	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	2,062	–	26
3	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,957	–	29
4	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,915	–	31
5	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,817	–	36
6	Wokingham	SEND2	1,382	–	39
7	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,341	–	45
8	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,243	–	52
9	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,180	–	64
10	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,082	–	74
11	Kent	SEND2	878	–	87
12	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	697	25 Mar 2028	105
13	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	589	10 Jan 2025*	115
14	Surrey	AreaSEND1	515	24 Sep 2026	116
15	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	452	26 Nov 2026	123
16	Medway	AreaSEND1	382	04 Feb 2027	129
17	Milton Keynes	AreaSEND1	255	04 Mar 2027	131
18	Southampton	AreaSEND1	285	13 May 2027	138
19	East Sussex	AreaSEND1	95	18 Nov 2027	149

* 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