Part II Rights and duties of Parents and functions of Education Authorities in relation to Individual Pupils

Children requiring special education

65D Regulations regarding Records.

1

The Secretary of State shall by regulations prescribe—

a

the form of a Record;

b

the nature of the information to be entered therein;

c

the procedure to be followed in relation to the keeping, discontinuance and destruction of a Record and its transfer on the recorded child or recorded young person moving from the area of one education authority to that of another;

d

the period for which a Record must be preserved after its discontinuance;

e

the persons to whom an education authority—

i

shall, at the request of such a person, disclose a Record; and

ii

may disclose a Record,

and the manner of such disclosure;

f

such other matters relating to Records as are in his opinion necessary or expedient,

and the Secretary of State may—

i

under paragraph (c) of this subsection, prescribe different procedures in different circumstances;

ii

under paragraph (d) of this subsection, prescribe different periods in different circumstances; and

iii

under paragraph (e) of this subsection, prescribe different persons and different manners of disclosure for different purposes.

2

Regulations under subsection (1) above shall provide that a Record shall include four parts containing respectively—

a

a summary of the child’s or young person’s impairments;

b

a statement of the special educational needs arising from those impairments;

c

a statement of the measures proposed by the education authority to be taken to meet those needs; and

d

where appropriate, the nomination of a school to be attended by him.