Part IV Special educational needs

Chapter I Children with special educational needs

Special educational provision: general

320 Provision outside England and Wales for certain children.

1

A F1local authority may make such arrangements as they think fit to enable a child for whom they maintain a statement under section 324 to attend an institution outside England and Wales which specialises in providing for children with special needs.

2

In subsection (1) “children with special needs” means children who have particular needs which would be special educational needs if those children were in England and Wales.

3

Where a F1local authority make arrangements under this section in respect of a child, those arrangements may in particular include contributing to or paying—

a

fees charged by the institution,

b

expenses reasonably incurred in maintaining him while he is at the institution or travelling to or from it,

c

his travelling expenses, and

d

expenses reasonably incurred by any person accompanying him while he is travelling or staying at the institution.

4

This section is without prejudice to any other powers of a F1local authority.