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Children and Families Act 2014

Section 65: Access to schools, post-16 institutions and other institutions

295.This section gives local authorities in England the right to have access at any reasonable time to the premises of a school or other institution in England at which education or training is provided to a child or young person with an EHC plan maintained by the local authority in question, for the purpose of monitoring that education or training.

296.The section replaces, in England, and expands the remit of, section 327 of the Education Act 1996. Section 327 only applies to maintained schools which are maintained by another authority and independent schools. This section takes account of the extended age remit to which the new special educational needs provisions apply and applies to any institution providing the child or young person with education or training in accordance with an EHC plan. Local authorities will, under this section, have access to schools and special post-16 institutions in Wales (but not to general further education institutions in Wales) for the purpose of monitoring the education or training made under an EHC plan.

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