Article 32 Persons to whom notice of detained person’s EHC needs assessment must be givenF1

(1)

A home authority that secures a detained person’s EHC needs assessment under Article 31 must give notice of the assessment to the persons listed in paragraph (2) no later than the beginning of the period of two weeks ending with the day on which the assessment begins.

(2)

The persons mentioned in paragraph (1) are—

(a)

the appropriate person,

(b)

where the detained person is a child, the child,

(c)

the person in charge of the relevant youth accommodation where the detained person is detained,

(d)

the home commissioning body,

(e)

the detained person’s health services commissioner,

(f)

the officers of the home authority who exercise the home authority’s social services functions for children or young people with special educational needs,

(g)

the youth offending team responsible for the detained person,

(h)

in relation to a detained person who is a child, if the child is a registered pupil at a school, the head teacher of that school (or the person holding the equivalent position),

(i)

in relation to a detained young person—

(i)

if the young person is a registered pupil at a school, the head teacher of that school (or the person holding the equivalent position), or

(ii)

if the young person is a student of a post-16 institution, the principal of that institution (or the person holding the equivalent position), and

(j)

any person identified in accordance with regulation 4(2)(g) of the Detained Persons Regulations 2015.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Pt. 7 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Children and Families Act 2014 (Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/505), arts. 1, 8