Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018

47 Duty to take all reasonable steps to secure additional learning provision

(1) Subsection (2) applies to a child or young person—

(a) who has additional learning needs,

(b) for whom an individual development plan is not being maintained, and

(c) who is a registered pupil at a maintained school in Wales or an enrolled student at an institution in the further education sector in Wales.

(2) The governing body of the maintained school or institution in the further education sector (as the case may be) must, in exercising its functions in relation to the school or institution, take all reasonable steps to secure that the additional learning provision called for by the child’s or young person’s additional learning needs is made.

(3) The Code under section 4 must include guidance about the exercise of the function in subsection (2) during the period in which an individual development plan is being prepared for a child or young person but has not been given.

(4) Subsection (5) applies to a child or young person—

(a) for whom an individual development plan is being maintained by a local authority, and

(b) who is a registered pupil at a maintained school in Wales or an enrolled student at an institution in the further education sector in Wales.

(5) The governing body of the maintained school or institution in the further education sector (as the case may be) must take all reasonable steps to help the local authority that maintains the plan to secure the additional learning provision specified in it.