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 1/12/2023

Table 8.2: South East authorities’ waiting time since last SEND inspection at 1/12/2023

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	2,748
4	Gloucestershire	SEND1 – NFA	2,727
5	North Yorkshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,713
6	Stoke on Trent	SEND1 – NFA	2,699
7	Herefordshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,622
8	Bexley	SEND1 – NFA	2,615
9	Derbyshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,573
10	Hillingdon	SEND1 – NFA	2,559
11=	Leeds	SEND1 – NFA	2,552
11=	East Sussex	SEND1 – NFA	2,552
13	Trafford	SEND1 – NFA	2,496
14	Southampton	SEND1 – NFA	2,489
15	Cambridgeshire	SEND1 – NFA	2,447
16=	Halton	SEND1 – NFA	2,440
16=	Barking and Dagenham	SEND1 – NFA	2,440
18	Lewisham	SEND1 – NFA	2,251
19	Solihull	SEND1 – NFA	2,244

Rank	Name	Type of SEND inspection	Days waited	Due date if any	Nt’l rank
1	East Sussex	SEND1 NFA	2,552	–	12=
2	Southampton	SEND1 NFA	2,489	–	14
3	West Sussex	SEND1 NFA	2,104	–	23
4	West Berkshire	SEND1 NFA	2.027	–	26
5	Milton Keynes	SEND1 NFA	1,880	–	31
6	Portsmouth	SEND1 NFA	1,614	–	46
7	Windsor and Maidenhead	SEND2	1,509	–	50
8	Isle of Wight	SEND1 NFA	1,467	–	53
9	Medway	SEND2	1,453	–	55
10	Hampshire	SEND1 NFA	1,369	–	61
11	Wokingham	SEND2	934	–	68
12	Reading	SEND1 NFA	893	–	75
13	Slough	SEND1, SEND2 not done	795	–	84
14	Bracknell Forest	SEND1, SEND2 not done	732	–	97
15	Buckinghamshire	SEND1, SEND2 not done	634	–	111
16	Kent	SEND2	430	–	124
17	Brighton and Hove	AreaSEND1	249	25 Mar 2028	142
18	Oxfordshire	AreaSEND1	141	10 Jan 2025	152
19	Surrey	AreaSEND1	67	24 Sep 2026	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