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‘Wholly unsuitable’ EHCPs, long waits for help: SEND inspection failures revealed

Ofsted proposes ‘pool of inspectors’ and report cards to improve SEND inspections as shortcomings revealed

Council fails to ensure all schools ‘accommodate’ SEND pupils

Government intervention on the cards after damning inspection of Kent’s SEND services

The 5 proposals to overhaul SEND inspections

Ofsted and Care Quality Commission launch three-month consultation on inspecting SEND services

DfE commissioner to take over ‘failing’ Birmingham SEND provision

Intervention is first of its kind by the government

Ofsted orders action plan from council over SEND pupils’ ‘spiral of decline’

SEND pupils have fallen into a “spiral of decline” and are being excluded too often because a region’s authorities have failed to work together, a damning report has found. Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found “significant areas of weakness” in the services provided by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council and Dorset Clinical […]

School leaders lack time to vet mental health services, CQC warns

The majority of primary and secondary schools offer counselling to support children’s mental wellbeing, but school leaders lack the time to properly vet the services they commission. A review of children and young people’s mental health services published today by the Care Quality Commission, the regulator of health and social care in England, found that […]