A local authority in England must exercise its functions under this Part with a view to ensuring the integration of educational provision and training provision with health care provision and social care provision, where it thinks that this would—
promote the well-being of children or young people in its area who have special educational needs or a disability, or
improve the quality of special educational provision—
made in its area for children or young people who have special educational needs, or
made outside its area for children or young people for whom it is responsible who have special educational needs.
The reference in subsection (1) to the well-being of children and young people is to their well-being so far as relating to—
physical and mental health and emotional well-being;
protection from abuse and neglect;
control by them over their day-to-day lives;
participation in education, training or recreation;
social and economic well-being;
domestic, family and personal relationships;
the contribution made by them to society.