Children and Families Act 2014

62Special educational provision outside England and Wales

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(1)This section applies where a local authority in England makes arrangements for a child or young person for whom it maintains an EHC plan to attend an institution outside England and Wales which specialises in providing for children or young people with special educational needs.

(2)The arrangements may (in particular) include contributing to or paying—

(a)fees charged by the institution;

(b)the child’s or young person’s travelling expenses;

(c)expenses reasonably incurred in maintaining the child or young person while at the institution or travelling to or from it;

(d)expenses reasonably incurred by someone accompanying the child or young person while travelling to or from the institution or staying there.