Section 48: Release of child or young person for whom EHC plan previously maintained

Children and Families Act 2014 · 2014 c. 6View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 3: Children and young people in England with special educational needs or disabilities

This section applies where—

a child or young person who has been subject to a detention order (within the meaning of section 562(1A)(a) of EA 1996) is released,
on the release date, a local authority in England becomes responsible for him or her, and
an EHC plan was—
maintained for him or her immediately before the start of the detention, or
kept for him or her under section 74 during the detention.

The local authority must—

maintain the plan, and
review the plan as soon as reasonably practicable after the release date.

Subsection (2)(b) is subject to any contrary provision in regulations under section 44(7)(b).

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