Part X Miscellaneous and general

F1Chapter 5APersons detained in youth accommodation

Provisions applying to detained persons

562CDetained persons with F2statement of special educational needs

F3(1)

This section applies where, immediately before the beginning of the detention, a local authority F4in Wales were maintaining a statement under section 324 for a detained person.

(2)

The authority must keep the statement while the person is detained in relevant youth accommodation.

(3)

The host authority must use best endeavours to secure that appropriate special educational provision is made for the detained person while the person is detained in relevant youth accommodation.

(4)

For the purposes of subsection (3), appropriate special educational provision is—

(a)

the special educational provision that, immediately before the beginning of the detention, was specified in the statement,

(b)

educational provision corresponding as closely as practicable to the special educational provision so specified, or

(c)

if it appears to the host authority that the special educational provision so specified is no longer appropriate for the person, such special educational provision as reasonably appears to the host authority to be appropriate for the person.