Rulebook · Plan check
Placement not clear
A final plan names the school or other institution to be attended and states its type or, where no institution is named, states the type of school or institution, unless the council arranges education otherwise than at a school or college.
What a point from this check says, with placeholders in square brackets:
Section I names no school or type, and does not say education is arranged otherwise than at school or by the parent at home.
- Where it looks
- Section I: The school or other institution, or the type, to be attended
- 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
- From the plan's headings and structure.
- What would address it
- Check what Section I says about where the child or young person will be educated.
- The requirement
- See the requirement and every check that looks for it
- Rule id
chk.i.arrangement_unclear- Rules version
- england-2026.10
- Law as at
- 30 September 2026
Sources
- SEND Regulations 2014, reg 12(1)(i)Law (Act or Regulations)
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 39(3)Law (Act or Regulations)
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 39(5)Law (Act or Regulations)
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 40(2)Law (Act or Regulations)
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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