The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014

Consultation

54.—(1) When preparing and reviewing its local offer, a local authority must consult the following persons in its area—

(a) children and young people with special educational needs and the parents of children with special educational needs;

(b) children and young people with a disability, and the parents of children with a disability;

(c) the governing bodies of maintained schools and maintained nursery schools;

(d) the proprietors of Academies(1);

(e) the governing bodies, proprietors or principals of post-16 institutions;

(f) the governing bodies of non-maintained special schools;

(g) the management committees of pupil referral units;

(h) the advisory boards of children’s centres;

(i) the providers of relevant early years education;

(j) the youth offending teams that the authority thinks have functions in relation to children or young people for whom it is responsible;

(k) any other person that makes special educational provision for a child or young person for whom it is responsible and those who provide advice in relation to making that provision;

(l) persons who make provision to assist children and young people in preparation for adulthood and independent living;

(m) its officers who—

(i) exercise the authority’s functions relating to education or training;

(ii) exercise the authority’s social services functions for children or young people with special educational needs or a disability;

(iii) so far as they are not officers within paragraph (i) or (ii), exercise the authority’s functions relating to provision to assist children and young people in preparation for adulthood and independent living; and

(n) such other persons as it thinks appropriate.

(2) When preparing and reviewing its local offer, a local authority must also consult—

(a) the National Health Service Commissioning Board;

(b) any clinical commissioning group—

(i) whose area coincides with, or falls wholly or partly within, the local authority’s area, or

(ii) which exercises functions in relation to children or young people for whom the authority is responsible;

(c) any NHS trust or NHS foundation trust which provides services in the authority’s area, or which exercises functions in relation to children or young people for whom the authority is responsible;

(d) any local Health Board which exercises functions in relation to children or young people for whom the authority is responsible;

(e) any health and wellbeing board established under section 194 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012(2) which exercises functions in relation to children or young people for whom the authority is responsible.

(3) When preparing and reviewing its local offer, a local authority must also consult any bodies specified in paragraphs (1)(b) to (k) and (m) that are not in the local authority’s area, but which the local authority thinks are or are likely to either—

(a) be attended by children or young people for whom it is responsible; or

(b) have functions in relation to children or young people for whom it is responsible.

(1)

An academy has the same meaning as in section 1(10) of the Academies Act 2010

(2)

2012 c.7