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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2018/2" id="c00001" Class="WelshNationalAssemblyAct" Year="2018" Number="0002">Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018</Citation></Title>
<Number>2</Number>
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<DateText>24 January 2018</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00218" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2018/2/section/47" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-47">Section 47</CitationSubRef> - Duty to take all reasonable steps to secure additional learning provision</Title>
<NumberedPara id="paragraph-119" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2018/2/notes/paragraph/119" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2018/2/notes/paragraph/119"><Pnumber>119</Pnumber><Para>
<Text><CitationSubRef id="c00220" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2018/2/section/47/1" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-47-1">Section 47(1)</CitationSubRef> and (<CitationSubRef id="c00221" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2018/2/section/2" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-2">2</CitationSubRef>) requires that where a child or young person with <Abbreviation Expansion="Additional Learning Needs">ALN</Abbreviation> is a registered pupil at a maintained school or an enrolled student at an <Abbreviation Expansion="Institution in the Further Education Sector">FEI</Abbreviation>, but has no <Abbreviation Expansion="Individual Development Plan">IDP</Abbreviation> maintained for them, the relevant governing body must take all reasonable steps to secure the <Abbreviation Expansion="Additional Learning Provision">ALP</Abbreviation> called for by the person’s ALN. This is to ensure, for example, that such children and young people receive appropriate support whilst their needs are being determined or a plan is being prepared for them. The code must include guidance about situations where a plan is being prepared for the learner (subsection (3)).  The duty on the governing bodies will also apply in respect of pupils or students resident in England who do not have an IDP (in which case, they may have an <Abbreviation Expansion="Health and Care plan">EHC</Abbreviation> plan, or there may have been a request to the England local authority for an EHC assessment - see section 12).</Text>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="c00223" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2018/2/section/47/4" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-47-4">Section 47(4)</CitationSubRef> and (<CitationSubRef id="c00224" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2018/2/section/5" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-5">5</CitationSubRef>) require that when a local authority maintains an IDP for a child or young person attending a maintained school or FEI, the relevant governing body takes all reasonable steps to help the local authority secure the ALP set out in the IDP.</Text>
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