From the autumn, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) plan to begin visiting local areas to assess how special educational needs and disability (SEND) services are functioning in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The visits – not inspections, which have been suspended since March when the lockdown was imposed – will be made to a sample of local areas to help improve their SEND systems following the disruption caused by the virus. Ofsted says it will be a collaboration with local areas to “understand the experiences of children and young people with SEND and their families during the pandemic, and support local areas to meet their needs”.
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