rvices, focused on the LA), JTAI (joint targeted area inspection, focused on LA and partner organisations), and SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). After notification of inspection, the LA will have a very short timeframe to produce “Annex A” documents, including the Annex A child level lists, and check it before sending to Ofsted. Most LAs will use their Annex A child level lists to populate a fresh copy of the ChAT report to provide to Ofsted at this point. (Annex A is the section of the inspection guidance detailing all the data required from the LA to support inspection). An Ofsted analyst may contact the LA to clarify any unclear data, but there’s no formal analyst’s meeting, so LA analysts may well not feel directly involved in inspection after providing Annex A. During inspection, analysts may well receive no further data requests from Ofsted; they will, however, receive requests from LA service leads for data, analysis or investigatory work to support them in responding to Ofsted’s key lines of enquiry (KLOEs). This can be an intensive period and the data team should plan before inspection how they will support service leads through this time, including planning how and when to respond to out-of-hours and last-minute requests for help. Ofsted advises LAs to be pragmatic about inspection preparation, and say that they accept that not all data will be perfect, nor all answers. In reality, most LAs will be preparing intensively if they expect inspection in the near future. The inspection outcome will be informally and confidentially related to the service lead at the end of the on-site inspection; a formal report will follow later, and some local officers will have to wait until this is published before learning the outcome. 20 References: Ofsted dat