Learning and Skills Act 2000

[F1139AAssessments relating to learning difficulties: EnglandU.K.

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(1)Subsection (2) applies if a [F2local authority] in England—

(a)maintains a statement of special educational needs for a person, and

(b)believes that the person will leave school, at the end of his last year of compulsory schooling, to receive post-16 education or training or higher education.

(2)The authority must arrange for an assessment of the person to be conducted at some time during his last year of compulsory schooling.

(3)Subsection (4) applies if a [F2local authority] in England—

(a)maintains a statement of special educational needs for a person who is over compulsory school age, and

(b)believes that the person will leave school, during or at the end of the current school year, to receive post-16 education or training or higher education.

(4)The authority must arrange for an assessment of the person to be conducted at some time during the current school year.

(5)A [F2local authority] in England may at any time arrange for an assessment to be conducted of a person—

(a)who is within subsection (6), and

(b)for whom the authority is responsible.

(6)A person within this subsection is one who—

(a)is in his last year of compulsory schooling, or is over compulsory school age but has not attained the age of 25,

(b)appears to the authority to have a learning difficulty within the meaning of section 13, and

(c)is receiving, or in the opinion of the authority is likely to receive, post-16 education or training or higher education.

(7)In exercising its functions under this section an authority must have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State.]

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 139A-139C inserted (26.11.2008) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), ss. 80, 173(1)(a)