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                                                                                                                      May 2022

Welcome

SEND Local Authority Ofsted Revisit.

We have received 10 days’ notice of Ofsted/Care Quality Commission (CQC) SEND revisit on 23rd - 25th May. The purpose is to decide whether the local area has made sufficient progress in addressing the areas of significant weakness identified by the previous Ofsted/CQC inspection in December 2018 and detailed by the Written Statement of Action. The areas they will be looking into are set out below:

  1. To embed our Strategic plans and the local area’s SEND arrangements and ensure they are widely understood by stakeholders including schools, settings, staff and parents and carers. 
  2. Improve communication with key stakeholders, particularly with parents and families. 
  3. Improve the timeliness and quality of Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) so they consistently capture a child and young person’s needs and aspirations and become effective support in the planning and implementation of education, health, and care provision 
  4. Improve the identification, assessment, diagnosis and support of those children and young people with autism spectrum disorder. 

One of the ways Ofsted will gather views of parents and carers is through an online survey. For those who would like to take part in the survey, it will go live on Monday 16th May at 12 noon and close at 12 noon on Friday 20th May, you can access it through the link below.

Devon County Council LASEND Re-Visit Survey (smartsurvey.co.uk)

Inspectors will also seek the views of young people and parent carers through a series of meetings during the visit.

Initial feedback will be provided at the end of the visit and the visit report should be made available by Ofsted/CQC to the local area approximately 33 days after the visit but sometimes this takes longer.

Ofsted Letter to Parents re: Devon County Councils SEND Revisit

To view the letter from Ofsted to Parents regarding Devon County Councils SEND Revisit click here.