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 17/10/2024

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 17/10/2024

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	2,943
4	Derbyshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,894
5=	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	2,873
5=	East Sussex	SEND1 – NFA	2,873
7	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,768
8	Lewisham	SEND1 – NFA	2,572
9	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,565
10	Hackney	SEND1 – NFA	2,516
11=	Wiltshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,453
11=	St. Helens	SEND1 – NFA	2,453
13	Havering	SEND1 – NFA	2,425
14	City of London	SEND1 – NFA	2,411
15	West Berkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,348
16	Redbridge	SEND1 – NFA	2,320
17	Wigan	SEND1 – NFA	2,313
18	Southwark	SEND1 – NFA	2,306
19	Lincolnshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,208

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	East Sussex	SEND1 NFA	2,873	–	5=
2	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.348	–	15
3	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	1,935	–	31
4	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,830	–	34
5	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,788	–	36
6	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,690	–	42
7	Wokingham	SEND2	1,255	–	46
8	Reading	SEND1 NFA	1,214	–	52
9	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,116	–	60
10	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	1,053	–	72
11	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	955	–	85
12	Kent	SEND2	751	–	98
13	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	570	25 Mar 2028	116
14	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	462	10 Jan 2025*	126
15	Surrey	AreaSEND1	388	24 Sep 2026	127
16	West Sussex	AreaSEND1	325	26 Nov 2026	134
17	Medway	AreaSEND1	255	04 Feb 2027	140
18	Milton Keynes	AreaSEND1	227	04 Mar 2027	142
19	Southampton	AreaSEND1	157	13 May 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