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Children and Families Act 2014

Section 52: Right to mediation

264.This section sets out that local authorities must inform parents and young people, following a decision in relation to an assessment or a plan or after the plan is made, amended or replaced, of their right to mediation about educational, health and social care issues.

265.Mediation is different to an appeal, in that it seeks to resolve matters through agreement between parents/young people and local authorities rather than through a judicial decision. The mediator must be independent, meaning that he or she cannot be an employee of a local authority.

266.The local authority must also inform parents and young people that before making certain appeals to the Tribunal they must obtain a certificate, either following the receipt of information about mediation or following mediation. If the parent wishes to pursue mediation then they must tell the local authority that they intend to do so and what they want to pursue mediation about and, if they want health provision or a particular kind of health provision included in the plan, what that health provision is.

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