The Education Development Plans (Wales) Regulations 2002

Information on pupils with special educational needs

22.—(1) The annexes to a full plan shall include a table showing—

(a) the number of statemented pupils for whom the authority were providing education in each of the three school years immediately prior to the period of the plan;

(b) the number of non-statemented pupils for whom the authority were providing education in the school year ending immediately prior to the period of the plan;

(c) the number of statemented pupils registered as pupils in mainstream classes at mainstream schools maintained by the authority in the school year ending immediately prior to the period of the plan;

(d) the number of statemented pupils registered as pupils at mainstream schools maintained by the authority, either in a special class or with specialist resource provision, in the school year ending immediately prior to the period of the plan;

(e) the number of registered pupils in special schools maintained by the authority in the school year ending immediately prior to the period of the plan; and

(f) the total number of pupils with special educational needs in the school year ending immediately prior to the period of the plan who were registered as pupils—

(i) at schools maintained by other authorities, and

(ii) at independent schools.

(2) The annexes to a full plan shall include—

(a) a description of the arrangements which the authority have in place in order to make available parent partnership services;

(b) a description of the arrangements which the authority have in place in order to monitor whether the educational and other provision set out in each statement made under section 324 of the 1996 Act is being delivered;

(c) a statement describing the authority’s arrangements for monitoring educational standards achieved by pupils with special educational needs; and

(d) a statement setting out the authority’s funding mechanism for special educational needs provision.

(3) In this regulation—

(a) “total pupils” means the total number of pupils for whom the authority provide education;

(b) all references to a number of pupils in relation to a school year are references to the number of those pupils on the Schools' Census enumeration date in that school year;

(c) “parent partnership services” in relation to all full plans other than a 2002—05 full plan, means the arrangements made by the authority under section 332A of the 1996 Act(1) for the provision of advice and information about matters relating to special educational needs to parents of children with special educational needs, but in relation to a 2002—05 full plan, means any such arrangements which may have been made or planned by the authority.

(1)

Section 332A was inserted by section 2 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 (c. 10).