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Ofsted with other inspectorates are currently undertaking a joint area review of children’s services in East Sussex, which will report in the autumn.
This will include making a judgment and reporting specifically on services for children and young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
The high-level annual performance assessment of local authority children’s services undertaken by Ofsted, with, until 2006, the Commission for Social Care Inspection, does not make a scored judgment specifically on services for such children. However, it considers such services in reaching a judgment on the council’s overall performance on children’s services. The letter summarising the 2006 annual performance assessment of East Sussex, issued by the two inspectorates on 1 November 2006, notes as a key strength the family support service for children with disabilities.