Paragraph 3 Request for direct payments

(1)

Where a local authority has—

(a)

served a copy of a statement or an amended statement of special educational needs in accordance with paragraph 6 of Schedule 27 to the 1996 Act; or

(b)

carried out an assessment of a beneficiary’s learning difficulties in accordance with section 139A of the 2000 Act, and has prepared the written report referred to in section 139B(3) of the 2000 Act^f1,

the authority must provide P with information and advice about direct payments under section 532A(1) of the 1996 Act and if P requests the authority to consider making a direct payment under that section, the authority must consider that request.

(2)

In this paragraph P means—

(a)

the parent of a beneficiary where the beneficiary has not yet attained the age of 16;

(b)

the beneficiary where the beneficiary has attained the age of 16 and has capacity to consent to the making of direct payments to them; or

(c)

a representative.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 139B was inserted by section 80 of the 2008 Act and amended by S.I. 2010/1158.