PART 2ADDITIONAL LEARNING NEEDS

CHAPTER 4AVOIDING AND RESOLVING DISAGREEMENTS

Appeals and applications to the Tribunal

I1C172Appeal rights: detained persons

1

Subsection (2) applies to—

a

decisions of a home authority in Wales under section 40;

b

individual development plans kept by a home authority under section 42.

2

A detained person and, in the case of a detained person who is a child, the detained person's parent, may appeal to the Education Tribunal for Wales against the following matters—

a

a decision of the home authority as to whether a detained person has additional learning needs;

b

a decision of the home authority as to whether it will be necessary for an individual development plan to be maintained for a detained person when he or she is released from detention;

c

the description of a person's additional learning needs in an individual development plan;

d

the additional learning provision in an individual development plan or the fact that additional learning provision is not in a plan (including whether the plan specifies that additional learning provision should be provided in Welsh);

e

the provision included in an individual development plan under section 40(7) or the fact that provision under that section is not in the plan;

f

the school named in an individual development plan for the purpose of section 48;

g

if no school is named in an individual development plan for the purpose of section 48, that fact;

h

a refusal to make a decision under section 40(2) on the basis that section 41(2)(b) applies (no material change in needs and no new information that materially affects the decision).

3

The exercise of rights under this section is subject to—

a

provision made by regulations under sections 74, 75, 83 and 85(8);

b

section 85(4).