Latest Inspection
CQC and Ofsted Dudley Local Area SEND Inspection findings and recommendations report is published from Inspection 20 to 24 January 2025
The Care Quality and Commission and Ofsted have today published their report following their Dudley Local Area SEND inspection carried out in January.
INSPECTION OUTCOME
The local area partnership’s arrangements lead to inconsistent experiences and outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). The local area partnership must work jointly to make improvements.
The next full area SEND inspection will be within approximately three years.
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ask that the local area partnership updates and publishes its strategic plan based on the recommendations set out in this report.
Although the report makes it clear there are areas where we still need to improve, it also shows that we have made progress and that as a partnership we are working together to improve the outcomes for children and young people with SEND. We will of course update our improvement plan and will continue our journey of improvement. We would like to thank you for your commitment, hard work and focus on improving outcomes for our children and young people
You can view the report on Ofsted’s Website
Joint Local Area SEND revisit announced for 31 January 2022
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission found improvements in Dudley’s SEND services but concludes that more needs to be done in re-visit January 31 and Feb 3 2022.
Further information and links to the Ofsted and CQC full letter can be found in the statement from Catherine Driscoll, Director of Children’s Services Dudley and Neill Bucktin, Dudley Managing Director, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group.
The purpose of the re-visit: to determine whether the local area has made sufficient progress in addressing the areas of significant weakness detailed in the written statement of action (WSOA) that was approved by the Department for Education in December 2019 following the borough's joint local area SEND inspection in May 2019.