Message to All Schools from Peter Nathan (Director of Education)

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be visiting Enfield on 13th and 14th October to find out about our arrangements for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SEND system and to support service improvement.

Inspectors want to identify what has worked well for children and young people with SEND and their families over recent months, what the challenges and lessons learned have been, and what the opportunities are for improvement for the future.

Ofsted and CQC will be publishing a series of thematic reports on what they have found during the local area visits. These will share insights to promote whole-system learning towards a stronger SEND system in the wake of the pandemic, as well as highlighting how services and support for children and young people with SEND have been adapted.

Ofsted has published guidance setting out the details of how these visits will be carried out.

The visits are not inspections, nor will they replace the current area SEND inspection cycle, the SEND inspection cycle remains on hold.  Ofsted will restart those inspections when it is right to do so.

The Inspectors want to gather the views of parents/carers and young people aged 16 – 25 Years and have developed an on line survey.  Please see links below that will be available from Monday 28th September until midnight on  Wednesday 7th October .

On Monday, can you please distribute this to parent/carers and young people known to your service and support them to complete the survey as we are keen to receive their feedback which will inform both local and national learning.

  • For parents/carers of children and young people with SEND  

Enfield: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Survey_for_Parents_and_Carers_AC/

  • For children and young people with SEND aged 16 – 25

Enfield: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Survey_for_Young_People_with_SEND_AC/

 

Many thanks for your support.

Kind regards,

 

Peter Nathan

Director of Education

People Department

Enfield Council