Part IV Special educational needs

Chapter I Children with special educational needs

Special educational provision: general

F1316 Duty to educate children with special educational needs in mainstream schools

1

This section applies to a child with special educational needs who should be educated in a school.

C12

If no statement is maintained under section 324 for the child, he must be educated in a mainstream school.

C13

If a statement is maintained under section 324 for the child, he must be educated in a mainstream school unless that is incompatible with—

a

the wishes of his parent, or

b

the provision of efficient education for other children.

4

In this section and section 316A “mainstream school” means any school other than—

a

a special school, or

b

an independent school which is not—

i

a city technology college,

ii

a city college for the technology of the arts, or

iii

F2an Academy.