Explanatory note

These Regulations prescribe the form and content of a co-ordinated support plan for a child or young person with additional support needs for the purposes of the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (regulation 3 and the Schedule). The Regulations also prescribe time limits and exceptions to such limits for the preparation and review of a plan (regulations 4, 5, 6 and 7), arrangements for keeping the plan (regulation 8), arrangements regarding the transfer of a plan to another education authority (regulation 9), arrangements for the disclosure without explicit consent of the plan to specified persons or in specified circumstances (regulation 10) and arrangements for the discontinuance, retention and destruction of a plan (regulation 11). These Regulations replace and revoke the Additional Support for Learning (Co-ordinated Support Plan) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/266).