Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 527A of the Education Act 1996 comes into force on 1st April 1998. Section 527A(1) requires every local education authority (LEA) to prepare, and from time to time revise, a statement (referred to in these Regulations as “the plan”) setting out the arrangements made, or proposed to be made, by the authority in connection with the education of children with behavioural difficulties.

These Regulations prescribe:

(a)

for the purposes of section 527A(4), the persons and bodies whom an LEA are required to consult when preparing the plan (or subsequent revisions of it), and the manner in which the LEA are required to carry out that consultation (regulation 3); and

(b)

for the purposes of section 527A(5)—

(i)

the manner in which an LEA are required to publish the plan (or a revised plan), and the persons to whom they are required to provide copies of it (regulation 4); and

(ii)

the date by which they are required to publish the plan, or revisions of it (regulation 5).