Inspections of local services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) were introduced in 2016. Carried out jointly by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission, the one-off programme of inspections was intended to assess how well local authorities and their partners were delivering major reforms to provision – including the introduction of education, health and care plans (EHCPs).
The two regulators have now been tasked with developing a new inspection framework and are currently consulting on proposals.
Inspections to date have identified recurrent failings in SEND provision with more than half of areas required to produce a written statement of action to address serious concerns.
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