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Ofsted are clear, outstanding schools must be inclusive schools. To achieve an outstanding Ofsted rating schools must demonstrate that children and young people with SEND achieve exceptionally well. As part of this you must be able to demonstrate that all pupils with SEND have access to the same, ambitious and broad curriculum.
All schools and further education providers will be inspected by Ofsted before the summer term 2025. This will give a clear picture on how well schools are recovering from the pandemic, and will also give insight into how well children and young people with SEND are performing under the new framework
With proposed changes following the SEND review and a new local area SEND inspection framework to be introduced from 2023, your SEND provision will be under scrutiny in the coming academic year.
“…children and young people with SEN fall behind their peers at every stage of education, regardless of their prior attainment. Children and young people with SEN are also more likely to be disengaged from education, pushing them further behind. They have poorer attendance and are more likely to be excluded.”
This conference will enable you to:
- Ensure you are up to date with the current inspection framework and how your SEND provision will be inspected
- Anticipate what inspectors are looking for when considering the achievements of pupils with SEND
- Understand how your curriculum design will be inspected
- Audit your curriculum to ensure that it is broad and ambitious
- Be prepared for how SEND provision will be judged under each judgement area
- Prepare the relevant and necessary data to demonstrate impact for your pupils
- Understand how Ofsted will inspect the safeguarding arrangements for pupils with SEND to ensure they take account of additional vulnerabilities
- Stay on top of proposed changes to local area SEND inspections