SCHEDULE 2Children and young persons with additional support needs: placing requests
Reference to appeal committee of refusal of placing request
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1
A parent who has made a placing request may refer a decision of the education authority refusing the request to an appeal committee set up under section 28D of the 1980 Act.
2
Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where the decision of the education authority refusing the request may be referred to F1the First-tier Tribunal under section 18(1).
3
Where a reference under this paragraph has been made in respect of a child, no further such reference in respect of the child is competent during the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which the immediately preceding such reference was lodged.
4
A reference under this paragraph must be lodged with the appeal committee within 28 days of the receipt by the parent of the decision of the education authority.
5
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4), a decision which is posted is to be presumed to have been received (unless the contrary is proved)—
a
on the day after the date on which it was posted, or
b
if posted on a Friday or Saturday, on the Monday next following.
6
The committee may, on good cause being shown, hear such a reference notwithstanding that it was not lodged within the time mentioned in sub-paragraph (4).