Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to commission Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission to continue their local area special educational needs and disability inspections beyond the current initial five-year cycle.

Ofsted and Care Quality Commission inspections of the effectiveness of special educational needs and disability services are providing evidence of progress and are a powerful driver of improvement in local areas.

My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State announced on 5 July that he would be asking Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission to design a programme of further inspections to follow the current round, due to conclude in 2021; and for their advice on further inspection or monitoring of those areas required to produce a ‘Written Statement of Action’.