Slough Borough Council has been issued statutory direction from the Department for Education to improve standards of SEND support following a monitoring visit from Ofsted in February.
Issued last week (4 August), the direction states that the council is “failing” to improve its SEND provision following a damning report by inspectors from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission in 2021 which found that council and health services were not working well together across health, education and social care, leaving children and their families without effective support.
The direction notice orders council leaders to work with DfE-appointed commissioner Paul Moffat, former chief executive of Doncaster Children’s Trust, to improve its SEND provision.
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