Rulebook · Plan check
Need named only by a diagnosis
Section B specifies all of the child or young person's identified special educational needs.
What a point from this check says, with placeholders in square brackets:
This item gives a diagnosis or category but not what the child or young person finds difficult. Section B must specify the special educational needs (s 37(2)(a), reg 12(1)(b)); check whether another item in Section B describes them.
- Where it looks
- Section B: Special educational needs
- How it is reported
- Worth checkingThis depends on facts Plenda cannot see. Check it against the reports and what the child needs.
- Type of rule
- Law (Act or Regulations)
- How Plenda finds it
- This depends on facts Plenda cannot see, so it is shown as something to check.
- What would address it
- Describe the needs: what the child or young person finds hard, and how it affects their learning.
- The requirement
- See the requirement and every check that looks for it
- Rule id
chk.b.diagnosis_only- Rules version
- england-2026.10
- Law as at
- 30 September 2026
Sources
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 37(2)(a)Law (Act or Regulations)
- SEND Regulations 2014, reg 12(1)(b)Law (Act or Regulations)
- SEND Code of Practice 2015, Section B row, para 9.69Code of Practice: must (restates the law)
Plan checks look at what a plan says and how clearly. They do not judge whether the help is enough for the child.
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