Regulation 14 Information as to provision for special educational needs of recorded pupils at a school which is not a special school

(1)

For the purposes of their duty under section 27(2) of the Act (duty to attempt to reach agreement as to certain matters in respect of recorded pupils attending the school), the education authority and the board of management of a self-governing school which is not a special school shall provide each other with information as to the matters described in paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2)

For each grant year, the education authority shall provide the board of management with information as to the provision which the authority consider necessary to make adequate and efficient provision for the special educational needs of all recorded children and recorded young persons belonging to the authority’s area including, in particular, information as to the following matters, namely:—

(a)

the total number of such children and young persons;

(b)

a general description of the special educational needs of such children and young persons; and

(c)

the total resources which the education authority consider are necessary to make adequate and efficient provision for such needs of all such children and young persons.

(3)

For each grant year, the education authority shall also provide the board of management with information as to—

(a)

the number of recorded children and young persons of whom they are aware (including such children and young persons belonging to the area of another education authority) and in whose Record of Needs the school is, or is proposed to be, the school nominated as that which that child or young person should attend; and

(b)

the special educational needs of each such child or young person,

together with a description of—

(i)

the resources which the education authority consider the board of management would need to supply directly from the school’s own resources to provide for the special educational needs of each such child or young person;

(ii)

the resources which the education authority are under a duty, or have a power and are willing, to supply towards making such provision, and whether such supply would be with or without charge, and, if the former, what charge is proposed; and

(iii)

the resources which the education authority consider the board of management would need to obtain from third parties towards making such provision.

(4)

For each grant year, the board of management shall provide the education authority with information as to the following matters:—

(a)

the range of provision the school has for pupils with special educational needs;

(b)

the number of recorded children and young persons for whom, and the special educational needs for which, the board consider they are able to provide (whether any such child or young person would attend the school by virtue of nomination of it in his Record of Needs or by virtue of direct application for admission);

(c)

the resources which the board consider would be necessary to make adequate and efficient provision for the special educational needs of such children and young persons, described under the following categories:—

(i)

those which the board would intend to supply directly from the school’s own resources;

(ii)

those which the board would intend to request the education authority to supply and whether with or without payment; and

(iii)

those which the board would intend to seek from third parties, with payment; and

(d)

the extent to which the board expect places at the school may be filled by recorded children and young persons not belonging to the area of the education authority and the extent and the nature of resources which they expect may be required in respect of such children and young persons.