Rulebook · Plan check
Check where this belongs
Health or social care provision that educates or trains a child or young person is treated as special educational provision, and is included in Section F.
What a point from this check says, with placeholders in square brackets:
This therapy may be aimed at learning or taking part in education. If it educates or trains, the Act treats it as special educational provision, which belongs in Section F.
- Where it looks
- Section G: Health care provision
- Section H1: Social care provision under section 2 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- Section H2: Other social care provision
- 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
- Check whether it educates or trains. Postural care, equipment and medical treatment usually stay in Section G.
- The requirement
- See the requirement and every check that looks for it
- Rule id
chk.gh.therapy_may_educate- Rules version
- england-2026.10
- Law as at
- 30 September 2026
Sources
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 21(5)Law (Act or Regulations)
- SEND Code of Practice 2015, para 9.73Code of Practice: must (restates the law)
- SEND Regulations 2014, reg 12(1)(f)Law (Act or Regulations)
- SEND Code of Practice 2015, Section F row (provision that educates or trains), para 9.69Code of Practice: must (restates the law)
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