Local SEND Improvement

Following an Ofsted inspection of our Buckinghamshire SEND Local Area Partnership in November 2025, Ofsted has published its report.

The report outcome indicates that the Buckinghamshire Local Area Partnership has made good progress; however, current arrangements lead to inconsistent experiences and outcomes for children and young people with SEND. This equates to a level two judgement on a three-level scale.

Following a positive WSoA monitoring meeting in July 2024, the Department for Education (DfE) will no longer monitor our progress on 2 of the 3 areas of our WSoA. This is due to progress being good. These areas are:

1. Integrated Therapies
2. Community Paediatrics

Despite this, we will be working on more changes and improvements that we know are still needed in these areas. This is to ensure that the support we provide continues to improve.

Monitoring will continue on the third area, Neurodevelopmental pathways. We will provide updates on our progress on this page.

We have had four meetings with them, the last meeting was on 4 July 2024. These meetings will continue until Buckinghamshire has its next full inspection.

We have completed most of the original actions in the WSoA. We know that there is still more to do to reduce waiting lists and improve the support we provide to children and young people with SEND when their needs are first identified. This ongoing work is being taken forward through Buckinghamshire’s SEND Strategic Plan.