PART 3Children and young people in England with special educational needs or disabilities

Special educational provision: functions of governing bodies and others

68Informing parents and young people

1

This section applies if—

a

special educational provision is made for a child or young person at a maintained school, a maintained nursery school, an Academy school, an alternative provision Academy or a pupil referral unit, and

b

no EHC plan is maintained for the child or young person.

2

The appropriate authority for the school must inform the child’s parent or the young person that special educational provision is being made for the child or young person.

3

The “appropriate authority” for a school is—

a

in the case of a maintained school or maintained nursery school, the governing body;

b

in the case of an Academy school or an alternative provision Academy, the proprietor;

c

in the case of a pupil referral unit, the management committee.