Part IV Special educational needs

Chapter I Children with special educational needs

Special educational provision: general

319 Special educational provision otherwise than in schools.

1

Where a local education authority are satisfied that it would be inappropriate for—

a

the special educational provision which a learning difficulty of a child in their area calls for, or

b

any part of any such provision,

to be made in a school, they may arrange for the provision (or, as the case may be, for that part of it) to be made otherwise than in a school.

2

Before making an arrangement under this section, a local education authority shall consult the child’s parent.