Rulebook · Plan check
No school or setting in a final plan
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 of this final plan is blank or "to be confirmed". A final plan names the school or other institution, or the type, unless education is arranged otherwise than at a school or college.
- Where it looks
- Section I: The school or other institution, or the type, to be attended
- How it is reported
- Legal requirementThe Act or the Regulations require this, and Plenda did not find it in the text supplied.
- Type of rule
- Law (Act or Regulations)
- How Plenda finds it
- From the plan's headings and structure.
- What would address it
- Name the school, college or other institution, or the type, in Section I.
- The requirement
- See the requirement and every check that looks for it
- Rule id
chk.i.not_named_in_final- 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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