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PART 2ADDITIONAL LEARNING NEEDS

CHAPTER 3SUPPLEMENTARY FUNCTIONS

Additional learning needs co-ordinating officers

61Designated education clinical lead officer

(1)A Local Health Board must designate an officer to have responsibility for co-ordinating the Board’s functions in relation to children and young people with additional learning needs.

(2)A Local Health Board may only designate an officer who is—

(a)a registered medical practitioner, or

(b)a registered nurse or another health professional.

(3)A Local Health Board may only designate an officer it considers to be suitably qualified and experienced in the provision of health care for children and young people with additional learning needs.

(4)An officer designated under this section is to be known as a “designated education clinical lead officer”.