Nursery World - 1.3 million disabled children face 50:50 chance of the right support

According to figures collated by the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS), 51 out of 100 local councils and health services have failed the inspection of their SEND support.

More than half of local areas failed to meet the required standard for supporting children with SEND

Since 2016, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have jointly inspected local areas to see how effectively they fulfil their responsibilities for children and young people (from birth to age 25) with SEND. In the first five years, the inspectorate and regulator planned to carry out 152 inspections.

The data, taken from Ofsted inspection reports, reveals that of the first 50 inspections, 21 (42 per cent) failed to meet the required standard for supporting disabled children. For the next 50, the failure rate increased to 60 per cent after 30 of them fell short of the required standard.

Of the 51 local councils and health services that failed, 11 were re-inspected with six failing again.

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