The Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2021

The School Admissions (Infant Class Sizes) (Wales) Regulations 2013

4.—(1) The School Admissions (Infant Class Sizes) (Wales) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1)—

(a) at the appropriate places (with the definitions of Acts in chronological order at the start of the list) insert the following definitions—

““the ALNETA 2018” (“DADYTA 2018”) means the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018(2);”;

““additional learning needs” (“anghenion dysgu ychwanegol”) in relation to a child to whom Part 2 of the ALNETA 2018 applies, has the meaning given by section 2 of the ALNETA 2018;”;

““child with an individual development plan” (“plentyn sydd â chynllun datblygu unigol”) means a child in relation to whom an individual development plan is maintained under Part 2 of the ALNETA 2018;”;

““special educational needs” (“anghenion addysgol arbennig”), in relation to a child to whom Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the EA 1996(3) continues to apply, has the meaning given by section 312 of the EA 1996;”;

(b) in the definition of “suitable education”, after “needs” insert “or additional learning needs (as the case may be)”.

(3) In the Schedule—

(a) after paragraph 2 insert—

“2A.   This paragraph applies to a child with an individual development plan admitted to the school outside a normal admission round as a result of the school being named in the child’s individual development plan under section 48 of the ALNETA 2018.”;

(b) in paragraph 14, after “needs” insert “or additional learning needs (as the case may be)”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/1141 (W. 121). There are amendments to the Schedule which are not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

2018 anaw 2.

(3)

1996 c. 56. Chapter 1 of Part 4 is repealed by the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018, Schedule 1, paragraph 4(9). Other relevant amendments to section 312 include those made by the Education Act 1997 (c. 44), Schedule 7, paragraph 23 and the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), Schedule 3, Part 1, paragraphs 1 and 11.