1 Overview of this Act
Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (2018 anaw 2) | Legislation

Part 1 Overview

1  Overview of this Act

(1)     Part 2 of this Act establishes the statutory system in Wales for meeting the additional learning needs of children and young people; it contains 5 chapters.

(2)     Chapter 1 (sections 2 to 9)—

(a)     gives the meaning of the key terms “additional learning needs” and “additional learning provision” (sections 2 and 3);

(b)     provides for a code of practice on additional learning needs (sections 4 and 5);

(c)     makes provision about participation by children, their parents and young people in decisions, about having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and about access to information about the additional learning needs system established by Part 2 (sections 6 to 9).

(3)     Chapter 2 (sections 10 to 46) provides for individual development plans for children and young people with additional learning needs.

(4)     Provision is made for the plans to be prepared and maintained by governing bodies of maintained schools, the governing bodies of institutions in the further education sector or local authorities; and for the governing body or authority having the duty to

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