Ofsted inspections of SEND services assess education, health and care provision for children in an area, but tend not to involve social care services or practitioners.
Speaking at the Association of Directors of Children's Services annual conference, Ofsted director of social care Yvette Stanley said when the inspections were designed it was decided to exclude social care so not to over burden children's services departments.
Stanley said that decision may need to be reconsidered for the next three-year round of SEND inspections, which will likely begin in 2020.
"When these inspections were set up there was a deliberate policy decision that social care would not be involved," Stanley explained.
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