Part IV Special educational needs
Chapter I Children with special educational needs
Special educational provision: general
319 Special educational provision otherwise than in schools.
1
Where a local education authority are satisfied that it would be inappropriate for—
a
the special educational provision which a learning difficulty of a child in their area calls for, or
b
any part of any such provision,
to be made in a school, they may arrange for the provision (or, as the case may be, for that part of it) to be made otherwise than in a school.
2
Before making an arrangement under this section, a local education authority shall consult the child’s parent.