PART 2INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS
Transfer of responsibility for individual development plans
Local authority request to transfer plan to governing body of further education institutionI113
1
A request by a local authority under section 36(2) of the 2018 Act that a governing body of an institution in the further education sector becomes responsible for maintaining an individual development plan for a young person who is enrolled as a student at the institution must be—
a
made in writing, and
b
accompanied by a copy of the plan, unless the governing body already has a copy of it.
2
The period prescribed for the purposes of section 36(3) of the 2018 Act (period after which local authority may refer matter to the Welsh Ministers)—
a
begins with the day on which the governing body receives the request under section 36(2), and
b
ends at the end of the period of 20 term time days beginning with the day after the day mentioned in sub-paragraph (a).
3
Where a governing body agrees to a local authority’s request under section 36(2), it—
a
must inform the local authority in writing of its agreement, and
b
becomes responsible for the plan under section 12(4) of the 2018 Act—
i
on the day agreed between the governing body and the authority for responsibility to transfer;
ii
otherwise on the day on which the authority receives the governing body’s agreement in writing to the request.
4
In paragraph (2), “term time day” in relation to an institution in the further education sector means a day on which the institution is due to meet for the purpose of teaching students provided that day is within a time period in which the institution delivers the majority of its full-time courses.