Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (Version in vigour from 2022-04-01 to )
Currency | No known outstanding effects |
Coming into Force | 01 April 2022 |
- (1) The Authority shall prepare a plan setting out the arrangements made or proposed to be made by it for special educational provision.
- (2) The plan shall include, in particular, a description of—
- (a) the resources and the advisory and support services the Authority proposes to make available for the purpose of discharging its functions in relation to special educational provision;
- (b) the arrangements for securing the provision of any training for staff in grant-aided schools which is required for the effective discharge of their functions in relation to special educational provision.
- (d) prepare and keep under review a programme of special educational provision (a “personal learning plan”) in respect of each registered pupil at the school who has special educational needs,
- (e) designate a teacher on the staff of the school (the “learning support co-ordinator”) as having responsibility for co-ordinating the provision of education for those pupils attending the school who have special educational needs, and
- (f) secure that—
- (i) parents of registered pupils at the school who are of compulsory school age and have or may have special educational needs,
- (ii) children over compulsory school age who are registered pupils at the school and have or may have special educational needs, are informed of the arrangements made under Article 21B which relate to disagreements between the Board of Governors and those persons.
- (1A) Paragraph (1B) applies where—
- (a) the Board of Governors of a grant-aided school (school A) has prepared a personal learning plan in respect of a registered pupil at the school, and
- (b) that pupil ceases to be a registered pupil at school A and becomes a registered pupil at another grant-aided school (school B) .
- (2A) Regulations may—
- (a) require the Board of Governors of an ordinary school to notify the Authority, in the prescribed manner, of any changes of a prescribed kind affecting a child attending the school for whom the Authority is making special educational provision;
- (b) require the Board of Governors of such a school to ensure that a learning support co-ordinator has prescribed qualifications or prescribed experience (or both) ; and
- (c) confer on the Board of Governors of such a school other functions relating to learning support co-ordinators.
- (1) The Board of Governors of a special school shall—
- (a) prepare and keep under review a programme of special educational provision (a “personal learning plan”) in respect of each registered pupil at the school, and
- (b) designate a teacher on the staff of the school (the “learning support co-ordinator”) as having responsibility for co-ordinating the provision of education for those pupils attending the school.
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