PART 6LOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN
Duties of local authorities in relation to looked after children
I183Care and support plans
1
Where a child becomes looked after by a local authority, any care and support plan prepared under section 54 in relation to that child must be—
a
reviewed, and
b
maintained under this section.
2
Where a child who does not have a care and support plan under section 54 becomes looked after by a local authority, the local authority must prepare and maintain a care and support plan in relation to that child.
F12A
A care and support plan for a child must include a record of the arrangements made to meet the child's needs in relation to education and training (a “personal education plan”).
2B
But subsection (2A) does not apply to a child if he or she is within a category of looked after child prescribed in regulations, for whom no personal education plan is to be prepared.
2C
If—
a
a child has additional learning needs, and
b
the child's care and support plan includes a personal education plan,
any individual development plan maintained for the child under section 19 of the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 must be incorporated within the personal education plan.
2D
For the purposes of subsection (2C)—
a
a “child” means a person not over compulsory school age (within the meaning given by section 8 of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56));
b
“additional learning needs” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018.
3
4
Where a local authority is satisfied that the circumstances of the child to whom a F3planF3care and support plan relates have changed in a way that affects the plan, the authority must—
a
carry out such assessments as it considers appropriate, and
b
revise the plan.
5
F4Subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018, regulations must make provision about—
b
6
Regulations under subsection (5)(c) must specify, in particular—
a
the persons who may request a review of a plan (on their own behalf or on behalf of another person);
b
the circumstances in which a local authority—
i
may refuse to comply with a request for a review of a plan, and
ii
may not refuse to do so.
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8
The local authority may—
a
b
include the other document in the plan.
9
F1110
References in subsections (2A) to (9) to a care and support plan are to be interpreted as references to a care and support plan prepared or maintained under this section.