Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are more than three years into a five-year joint inspection programme to assess the quality of support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in all English local authority areas.
More than 100 have been visited so far, with inspectors keen to see how local partners are working together to plan and deliver services.
Of the inspection reports published to date (99) about half have identified significant weaknesses in local arrangements with councils and clinical commissioning groups required to submit a "written statement of action".
Between September 2018 and July 2019, 11 of those areas were revisited and five were found not to be making sufficient progress in addressing those weaknesses.
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