Ofsted Visit Analysis – Page 8

Page 8 – Waiting time between SEND1 or SEND2 and AreaSEND1 at 29/08/2025

Table 8.1: National waiting time since last SEND inspection

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited
1	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	3,189
2	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,881
3	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,832
4	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,769
5	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,741
6	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,727
7	West Berkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,664
8	Wigan	SEND1 – NFA	2,629
9	Southwark	SEND1 – NFA	2,622
10=	Rochdale	SEND2	2,461
10=	Hammersmith	SEND1 – NFA	2,461
12	Ealing	SEND1 – NFA	2,412
13=	Camden	SEND1 – NFA	2,363
13=	Calderdale	SEND1 – NFA	2,363
15	Bath and North East Somerset	SEND1 – NFA	2,356
16	Sefton	SEND2	2,328
17	Doncaster	SEND1 – NFA	2,293
18	Blackburn with Darwen	SEND1 – NFA	2,265
19	Portsmouth	SEND1 – NFA	2,251

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.664	–	7
2	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	2,250	–	19
3	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	2,146	–	22
4	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	2,104	–	24
5	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	2,006	–	29
6	Wokingham	SEND2	1,571	–	32
7	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,530	–	38
8	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,432	–	43
9	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,271	–	60
10	Kent	SEND2	1,067	–	73
11	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	886	25 Mar 2028	91
12	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	778	10 Jan 2025*	100
13	Surrey	AreaSEND1	704	24 Sep 2026	101
14	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	641	26 Nov 2026	108
15	Medway	AreaSEND1	571	04 Feb 2027	114
16	Milton Keynes	AreaSEND1	543	04 Mar 2027	116
17	Southampton	AreaSEND1	473	13 May 2027	123
18	East Sussex	AreaSEND1	284	18 Nov 2027	134
19	Bracknell Forest	AreaSEND1	207	04 August 2026	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

Our friends at LIIA, working with D2I have produced more Ofsted analysis Ofsted inspections Power BI dashboard (external link hosted by LIIA).

The dashboard has five pages and covers ILACS and SEND inspections, with all manner of filters and visualisations available.

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