9.—(1) The young person has reasonable needs for education or training where the duration of the suitable programme of study that it is proposed the young person undertake, or continue to undertake, together with any other further education or training undertaken by the young person is not more than 2 years.
(2) The local authority may determine that the young person has reasonable needs for education or training if any of the circumstances described in paragraphs 3(1), 4(1), 5(1) and 6(1) of Schedule 1 apply.
(3) For the purposes of determining whether the young person has reasonable needs for education or training under paragraph (2), paragraphs 3(2), 4(2), 5(2) and 6(2) of Schedule 1 set out the respective factors which the local authority must take into account for each of the circumstances that apply.
(4) For the purposes of section 31(6)(b) of the 2018 Act, a young person has reasonable needs for education or training where the young person is undertaking a suitable programme of study in accordance with a determination under paragraph (2).
(5) Where the young person has, or a local authority determines that the young person has, reasonable needs for education or training under this regulation—
(a)for the purposes of section 14(1)(c)(ii) of the 2018 Act, it is necessary for the local authority to prepare and maintain an individual development plan for the young person if the local authority, were it to be preparing an individual development plan for the young person, would be under the duty in section 14(6) of that Act to specify in the plan provision of the kind listed in section 14(7)(a) of that Act;
(b)for the purposes of section 31(6)(b) of that Act, it is necessary for the local authority to continue to maintain the young person’s individual development plan if the local authority is under the duty in section 14(6) of that Act to specify in the plan provision of the kind listed in section 14(7)(a) of that Act.
(6) Otherwise it is not necessary for the local authority to prepare and maintain, or continue to maintain, an individual development plan for the young person.