The Area SEND inspection framework
Care Quality and Ofsted Local Area SEND Inspection - ANNOUNCED
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Ofsted have announced today (Monday 6 Jan 2025) that they are conducting a local Area Special Educational Needs and or disabilities (SEND) inspection in Dudley.
Fieldwork will begin on 16 January 2025. Inspectors will commence onsite work from 20 January 2025 to 24 January 2025.
The inspectors want to understand what it's like to be a child or young person with SEND in your local area and whether the education health and care services for children with special educational needs and or disabilities (SEND) are effective.
The inspectors will gather feedback in a variety of ways; through surveys, looking at data, talking to the local authority, education settings and SEND senior leaders and they also carry out focussed sampling of children’s cases and visits.
Feedback Surveys
Parent carers, children and young people and practitioners are being asked to complete an online survey.
The inspectors want to know about the help and support that children and young people with SEND get. You can let them know by filling in a survey below. What you tell them will be treated in confidence.
The surveys will close at 9am on Tuesday 14 January 2025
Children and young people survey:
If you are a young person with SEND please fill in this survey.
Parents and carers
If you are a parent or carer of a child or young person with SEND please complete this survey. If you have more than one child with SEND you can use the same link to complete a separate survey for each child.
An easy read version of this survey is also available
Practitioners
If you are a practitioner working with children or young people with SEND in education, health or care services, please complete this survey.
Inspectors will also want to talk with several parent carers about their children’s lived experience and you will be contacted separately if this is the case to ask your permission.
They will also talk with the Dudley Parent Carer Forum.
The Area SEND inspection framework
The new SEND inspection framework and handbook was published in 2023 . Each local area will be jointly inspected against the SEND Code of Practice by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission at least once every 5 years.
Information for parents and carers
Information for stakeholders
Collecting and processing personal information
During an inspection, inspectors will gather personal data and information that are necessary to help them evaluate local SEND arrangements. Ofsted’s privacy notice and the CQC’s privacy statement set out what data we collect, what we do with it, how long we keep it and people’s rights under data protection legislation.