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  "long_title": "This Order brings into force on 1st February 1988 sections 5 and 6 of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986. Section 5 imposes a duty on local education authorities to require appropriate officers of local social services authorities to give their opinion whether children who are receiving special education are disabled persons and imposes duties on local education authorities to notify local social services authorities when disabled persons receiving special education will leave full-time education and on local social services authorities to carry out assessments of their needs under certain welfare enactments; section 6 requires local education authorities to keep under review the dates when disabled children receiving special education are expected to leave full-time education at school or further education establishments to ensure that notices are given to local social services authorities and assessments made under section 5 of the Act.",
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