{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/6",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Families Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Identifying children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities",
  "text": "A local authority in England must exercise its functions with a view to securing that it identifies—\n(a) all the children and young people in its area who have or may have special educational needs, and\n(b) all the children and young people in its area who have a disability.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 in force at 1.9.2014 by S.I. 2014/889, art. 7(a) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2014/2270 (as amended (1.4.2015) by S.I. 2015/505 and (1.9.2015) by S.I. 2015/1619)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/6/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:52.883054+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}