Section 47 Functions of local authorities as regards exceptional educational provision.F2

Section 19 of the M1Education Act 1996 (exceptional provision of education in pupil referral units or elsewhere) shall be amended as follows.

In subsection (1) (duty of F1local authority to make arrangements for provision of suitable full-time or part-time education, at school or otherwise, for excluded children etc.), the words “full-time or part-time” shall be omitted.

In subsection (4) (power of local authority to make arrangements for provision of suitable full-time or part-time education, otherwise than at school, for excluded young persons etc.), the words “full-time or part-time” shall be omitted.

After that subsection there shall be inserted—

“(4A)

In determining what arrangements to make under subsection (1) or (4) in the case of any child or young person a local authority shall have regard to any guidance given from time to time by the Secretary of State.”