Whole-School SEND Audit Toolkit

A comprehensive and professionally designed Whole-School SEND Audit for SENCOs, senior leaders, inclusion leads and SEND governors.

This detailed resource supports schools to evaluate the quality, consistency and impact of their SEND provision. It provides a clear structure for identifying strengths, gathering evidence, recognising gaps and establishing meaningful priorities for whole-school improvement.

The audit examines the key areas of SEND leadership and provision, including strategic leadership, statutory responsibilities, identification of need, the graduated approach, quality-first teaching, provision mapping, pupil progress, intervention, EHCP implementation, staff knowledge, teaching assistant deployment, pupil voice, parent and carer partnership, attendance, behaviour, transitions, accessibility, safeguarding, governance and the effective use of SEND funding.

Throughout the resource, schools are encouraged to consider not only whether systems are in place, but also how consistently they are implemented and what difference they make to pupils with SEND.

The pack includes structured audit questions, evidence prompts, evaluation scales, reflection spaces, strengths and priority summaries, stakeholder considerations and improvement-planning pages. It can be completed independently by the SENCO or used collaboratively with senior leaders, teachers, governors and external advisers.
This resource is ideal for:

SENCO self-evaluation

Whole-school SEND reviews

School improvement planning

Leadership and governor monitoring

Preparing for inspection or external review

Reviewing the impact of SEND provision

Supporting a new SENCO or inclusion leader

Creating an evidence-informed SEND development plan

The calm, neutral design makes the document clear, professional and practical to use in meetings, reviews and ongoing monitoring. Pages may be completed as one full audit or reviewed section by section across the academic year.

Please note that this is an editable working template for school self-evaluation. It should be adapted to reflect the context, policies and procedures of the individual setting.