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 9/4/2024

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 9/4/2024

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	2,878
4	North Yorkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,843
5	Herefordshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,752
6	Derbyshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,703
7	Hillingdon	SEND1 – NFA	2,689
8=	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	2,682
8=	East Sussex	SEND1 – NFA	2,682
10	Southampton	SEND1 – NFA	2,619
11	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,577
12	Barking and Dagenham	SEND1 – NFA	2,570
13	Lewisham	SEND1 – NFA	2,381
14	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,374
15	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,325
16=	Wiltshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,262
16=	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,262
18	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,234
19	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,220

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	East Sussex	SEND1 NFA	2,682	–	8=
2	Southampton	SEND1 NFA	2,519	–	10
3	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.157	–	20
4	Milton Keynes	SEND1 NFA	2.010	–	25
5	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	1,744	–	39
6	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,639	–	42
7	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,597	–	44
8	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,499	–	51
9	Wokingham	SEND2	1,064	–	57
10	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,023	–	63
11	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	925	–	71
12	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	862	–	84
13	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	764	–	98
14	Kent	SEND2	560	–	111
15	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	379	25 Mar 2028	129
16	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	271	10 Jan 2025	139
17	Surrey	AreaSEND1	197	24 Sep 2026	140
18	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	134	26 Nov 2026	147
19	Medway	AreaSEND1	64	04 Feb 2027	153

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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