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.