Article 24 Effect of decision to replace statement following re-assessmentI1

This Article applies if, in the light of a re-assessment by virtue of Article 23, a local authority decides to replace a statement for a child or young person with an EHC plan.

F1Subject to paragraph (2A), regulation 27 of the SEND Regulations 2014 applies as if paragraph (2) required the finalised EHC plan to be sent to—

as soon as is practicable and in any event within the period of F218 weeks beginning with the day on which the request for assessment was made or, in a case within F3Article 23(4), the assessment was ordered on appeal.

Where the request for assessment was made before 1st September 2015 or, in a case within Article 23(4), the date on which the assessment was ordered on appeal was before 1st September 2015, the finalised EHC plan is required to be sent to the parties listed in paragraph (2) as soon as is practicable, and in any event within the period of 14 weeks beginning with the day on which the request was made or, in a case within Article 23(4), the assessment was ordered on appeal.

The local authority must cease to maintain the statement for the child or young person when the EHC plan is made.

The new law has effect in relation to the child or young person (to the extent that it has not done so already), and the old law ceases to have effect in relation to the child or young person, at that time.