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The Additional Learning Needs (Wales) Regulations 2021

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Additional learning needs co-ordinatorE+W

Interpretation of regulations 26 to 30E+W

26.  In this regulation and regulations 27 to 30—

“the 2014 Act” (“Deddf 2014”) means the Education (Wales) Act 2014(1);

“further education learning support worker” (“gweithiwr cymorth dysgu mewn addysg bellach”) means a person who is registered with the Education Workforce Council in the category of further education learning support worker as described in table 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act;

“further education teacher” (“athro neu athrawes addysg bellach”) means a person who is registered with the Education Workforce Council in the category of further education teacher as described in table 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act;

“relevant services” (“gwasanaethau perthnasol”) means—

(a)

advice or assistance in relation to additional learning provision,

(b)

the management of additional learning provision,

(c)

the assessment of additional learning needs,

(d)

advice or assistance in relation to additional learning needs, and

(e)

the management of pupils or students (as the case may be) with additional learning needs;

“school learning support worker” (“gweithiwr cymorth dysgu mewn ysgol”) means a person who is registered with the Education Workforce Council in the category of school learning support worker as described in table 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act;

“school teacher” (“athro neu athrawes ysgol”) means a person who is registered with the Education Workforce Council in the category of school teacher as described in table 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act and does not include a person registered on a provisional basis under section 9(5) of that Act;

“special educational needs co-ordinator” (“cydlynydd anghenion addysgol arbennig”) means a person having responsibility for co-ordinating the provision for pupils identified as having special educational needs under Part 4 of the Education Act 1996(2).

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I1Reg. 26 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1(2)

Prescribed qualification or experience of an additional learning needs co-ordinator at a schoolE+W

27.  The governing body of a school may designate a person as an additional learning needs co-ordinator under section 60(2) of the 2018 Act only if that person—

(a)is a school teacher, or

(b)was a special educational needs co-ordinator within the school immediately prior to 4 January 2021(3).

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I2Reg. 27 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1(2)

Prescribed qualification of an additional learning needs co-ordinator at an institution in the further education sectorE+W

28.  The governing body of an institution in the further education sector may designate a person as an additional learning needs co-ordinator under section 60(2) of the 2018 Act only if that person is a further education teacher.

Commencement Information

I3Reg. 28 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1(2)

Additional learning needs co-ordinator functions at a schoolE+W

29.  The tasks an additional learning needs co-ordinator at a school is responsible for carrying out, or ensuring are carried out, are—

(a)identifying a pupil’s additional learning needs and co-ordinating the making of additional learning provision that meets a pupil’s additional learning needs,

(b)securing relevant services that will support a pupil’s additional learning provision as required,

(c)keeping records of decisions about additional learning needs and individual development plans,

(d)promoting a pupil with additional learning needs’ inclusion in the school and access to the school’s curriculum, facilities and extra-curricular activities,

(e)monitoring the effectiveness of any additional learning provision made,

(f)advising school teachers at the school about differentiated teaching methods appropriate for individual pupils with additional learning needs,

(g)supervising and training school learning support workers who work with pupils with additional learning needs, and

(h)contributing to in-service training for school teachers at the school to assist the additional learning needs co-ordinator in carrying out the tasks referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e).

Commencement Information

I4Reg. 29 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1(2)

Additional learning needs co-ordinator functions at an institution in the further education sectorE+W

30.  The tasks an additional learning needs co-ordinator at an institution in the further education sector is responsible for carrying out, or ensuring are carried out, are—

(a)identifying a student’s additional learning needs and co-ordinating the making of additional learning provision that meets a student’s additional learning needs,

(b)securing relevant services that will support a student’s additional learning provision as required,

(c)keeping records of decisions about additional learning needs and individual development plans,

(d)promoting a student with additional learning needs’ inclusion in the institution in the further education sector and access to the institution in the further education sector’s curriculum, facilities and extra-curricular activities,

(e)monitoring the effectiveness of any additional learning provision made,

(f)advising teachers at the institution in the further education sector about differentiated teaching methods appropriate for individual students with additional learning needs,

(g)supervising and training further education learning support workers who work with students with additional learning needs, and

(h)contributing to training for further education teachers at the institution in the further education sector to assist the additional learning needs co-ordinator in carrying out the tasks referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e).

Commencement Information

I5Reg. 30 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1(2)

(3)

The Additional Learning Needs Co-ordinator (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1351 (W. 299)) came into force on 4 January 2021.

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