The standards have been updated to take account of changes in education policy, drawing on the Ofsted framework for inspecting education establishments1 and, in particular, the Ofsted/CQC framework for consultation, for inspecting local area arrangements for identifying and meeting the needs of children and young people with SEND.
Within any local area inspection, local authority services for children and young people with sensory impairment will be judged on the extent to which they contribute to the following:

• The effective identification of children and young people’s needs (known as domain 1)
• How effectively the needs of children and young people are met and the extent to which their outcomes improve (known as domain 2)
• Leadership and management (known here as domain 3)

In 2022, the RNIB published the Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI).  For more detail on this, please see the RNIB website here.

In response to this, in August 2023, Appendix 2 was added to the document, showing how the Quality Standards map on to the CFVI and vice versa.