(1)A governing body of a maintained school may not cease to maintain an individual development plan under section 31(5) unless subsection (2) or (3) applies.
(2)This subsection applies if the period prescribed under section 32(1)(b) has ended and no request has been made under that section.
(3)This subsection applies if the local authority has decided under section 32 that the plan should cease to be maintained and—
(a)the period prescribed under section 75 within which an appeal may be brought against the local authority’s decision has ended without an appeal having been brought, or
(b)an appeal has been brought before the end of the period prescribed under section 75, and has been fully determined.
(4)A governing body of an institution in the further education sector acting under section 31(5), or a local authority acting under section 31(6), may not cease to maintain an individual development plan until the later of—
(a)the period prescribed under section 75 within which an appeal may be brought against a decision not to maintain the plan having ended without an appeal having been brought, or
(b)an appeal having been brought before the end of the period prescribed under section 75, and having been fully determined.