A joint inspection team found significant weaknesses in SEND support in December 2018, including widespread concerns around delays and lack of quality in education, health and care plans for children.
Poor communication with parents was also highlighted as a problem as were challenges around the recruitment and retention of SEND staff.
But following their most recent visit, in May this year, inspectors found that services in Devon have “not made sufficient progress in addressing any of the significant weaknesses” outlined four years ago.
Concerns persist around failures by local leaders to develop a strategy to effectively tackle problems in support.
The Ofsted and Care Quality Commission inspection team is particularly critical of a fresh strategy launched in 2020 with “laudable” aims such as “hoping” that children and young people with SEND “dream, believe and achieve and fulfil their potential”.
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