PART 2ADDITIONAL LEARNING NEEDS

CHAPTER 3SUPPLEMENTARY FUNCTIONS

Miscellaneous functions

66Right of local authority to access premises of schools and other institutions

(1)

This section applies where a local authority maintains an individual development plan under this Part for a child or young person.

(2)

A person authorised by the local authority is entitled to have access at any reasonable time to any place where education or training is provided for the child or young person at the premises of an institution listed in subsection (3) if access to the place is necessary for the purpose of exercising the local authority's functions under this Part.

(3)

The institutions are—

(a)

an independent school in Wales or England;

(b)

a maintained school in the area of another local authority in Wales or England;

(c)

an institution within the further education sector in Wales or England;

(d)

an Academy;

(e)

a non-maintained special school;

(f)

an independent special post-16 institution included in the list under section 56.