If you sat in on our Schools White Paper webinar with Department for Education Minister, Georgia Gould, last month, you’ll have heard plenty of concerns from parents about accountability in …
Against the backdrop of continued uncertainty over the future of EHCPs, a report has found schools are responsible for forcing many children with SEND out of the system through inflexible …
Rumours abound that the Government is about to publish a white paper on SEND reform that will change the way that children and young people with SEND are supported. In …
In 2023, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission started implementing a new way to inspect local area SEND services. There are now two years’ worth of inspection reports under this …
Last week, Ofsted announced its proposals to overhaul how it carries out some of its education inspections. So what changes are Ofsted proposing, and how might it affect the world …
Last week, the government and Ofsted announced that they planned to change how English schools, colleges and local authorities will be inspected. What changes are coming, and how will these …
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have been inspecting local area SEND services since 2016. At the start of 2023, they introduced a new framework that changed the way …
Early this year, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be kicking off a new approach to inspecting local area SEND services. What will these look like, how will …
This article comes to you in two parts. The first, below, explores the statistics of Ofsted and CQC’s Area SEND Inspections from 2016-2021, and their subsequent revisits if an area …
with Kathryn Rudd, Ofsted Senior HMI for SEND As time has gone on Ofsted and CQC’s SEND area inspections have provided an important, though flawed, accountability route for the 2014 …
With Matt Keer Dear God, Kent, how can you fail children and young people with disabilities and their parents so badly? It’s a low bar to limbo under, but Kent …
**Watch a webinar on the consultation from Ofsted** Every local authority and health body in England has now had its SEND provision inspected by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission. A …
SNJ note: Prof. Brian Lamb OBE’s Lamb Inquiry in 2009 sparked the last SEND Reforms Green Paper. We’re delighted he’s here on SNJ to give his thoughts on what’s gone …
The Department for Education has issued a Statutory Direction to Birmingham City Council over the rotten state of its SEND services. How shameful, Birmingham! Birmingham is the second area to …
Last week, Ofsted published a report on the experiences of children and young people with SEND during the pandemic. The report is well worth a read – but it’s long, and if …
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have published a joint report after a series of interim “listening and learning” visits to schools during autumn 2020 and Spring 2021. (Note: This …
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is this week issuing two separate reports into the way the London Borough of Redbridge has failed the family of a 20-year-old disabled …
Ofsted’s second report looking at how the pandemic has impacted children’s education and wellbeing has added more weight to existing evidence showing huge disparities in the experience of children during …
It seems like a lifetime ago now – but there was a time when local SEND services were subjected to at least some external accountability. Ofsted & the Care Quality …
We’ve been waiting a while for confirmation about what’s happening when the current cycle of Ofsted/CQC SEND inspections of all 152 English LAs ends. Will that be it? Will there …
