C1PART 3Children and young people in England with special educational needs or disabilities

Annotations:

Education, health and care plans

I148Release of child or young person for whom EHC plan previously maintained

1

This section applies where—

a

a child or young person who has been subject to a detention order (within the meaning of section 562(1A)(a) of EA 1996) is released,

b

on the release date, a local authority in England becomes responsible for him or her, and

c

an EHC plan was—

i

maintained for him or her immediately before the start of the detention, or

ii

kept for him or her under section 74 during the detention.

2

The local authority must—

a

maintain the plan, and

b

review the plan as soon as reasonably practicable after the release date.

3

Subsection (2)(b) is subject to any contrary provision in regulations under section 44(7)(b).