Ofsted Visit Analysis – Page 1

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

The analysis covers every published report about children’s services in a local authority since the first SLAC inspections in November 2013. There may be visits on site, or reports in preparation that are not included in these pages.

Table 1 (on this page) shows all visits by year and inspection type; the analysis is divided into several sections which can be accessed from the links to the right

• Tables 1.1 and 1.2: Distribution of visits by year and type, and for SE, who’s had what (this page, see below)
• Table 2: The time it takes for Ofsted to publish a report from the start of the inspection (page 2)
• Tables 3.1 and 3.2: Waiting times since any inspection – all authorities and south east authorities , and type of last visit (page 3)
• Tables 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5: Waiting times since the start of last Ofsted full inspection visit with a published report  – all authorities and for south east authorities estimated next inspection window; Last 20 published reports with number of days waited and waiting list position when picked; Wait time between ILACS (post-Covid) by prior grade; All-time longest waits (page 4)
• Tables 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3: Outcome of ILACS, SIF, SLAC inspections by region (page 5)
• Tables 6.1 and 6.2 Points per day for each SE Authority from date of SLAC and SIF1 inspections to date (page 6)
• Tables 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 and 7.6: AreaSEND1, SEND 1 and 2 Inspections by Region and by Main Inspection Grade at Time of AreaSEND1, SEND 1 and 2 (page 7)
• Tables 8.1 and 8.2: Completed and Uncompleted Waiting Time Between SEND1 or SEND2 and AreaSEND1 (page 8)
• Tables 9.1 and 9.2: JTAI inspections post April 2022 by type and grade at time of visit; links to the last 5 reports of each type, by Region and by Main Inspection Grade at Time of JTAI (page 9)
• Tables 10.1, 10.2, 10.3,and 10.4 Focus visits by type and grade at time of visit; links to the last 5 reports of each type; by year and type of visit; and by frequency of Focus visits by grade at time of visit (page 10)

Table 1.1

Distribution of visits by year and type at 21/09/2026

Our friends at LIIA have published their analysis of Ofsted outcomes here