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 17/12/2024

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 17/12/2024

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	3.004
4=	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	2,934
4=	East Sussex	SEND1 – NFA	2,934
6	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,829
7	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,626
8	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,577
9	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,514
10	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,486
11	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,472
12	West Berkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,409
13	Redbridge	SEND1 – NFA	2,381
14	Wigan	SEND1 – NFA	2,374
15	Southwark	SEND1 – NFA	2,367
16	Lincolnshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,269
17=	Rochdale	SEND2	2,206
17=	Hammersmith	SEND1 – NFA	2,206
19	Ealing	SEND1 – NFA	2,157

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	East Sussex	SEND1 NFA	2,934	–	4=
2	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.409	–	12
3	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	1,996	–	22
4	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,891	–	31
5	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,849	–	32
6	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,751	–	39
7	Wokingham	SEND2	1,316	–	43
8	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,275	–	49
9	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,177	–	56
10	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,114	–	68
11	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,016	–	80
12	Kent	SEND2	812	–	93
13	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	631	25 Mar 2028	111
14	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	523	10 Jan 2025*	121
15	Surrey	AreaSEND1	449	24 Sep 2026	122
16	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	386	26 Nov 2026	129
17	Medway	AreaSEND1	316	04 Feb 2027	135
18	Milton Keynes	AreaSEND1	288	04 Mar 2027	137
19	Southampton	AreaSEND1	218	13 May 2027	144

* 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