Rulebook · Plan check
Personal budget details not found
Where there is a personal budget, Section J should give detailed information on it, including the arrangements for any direct payments.
What a point from this check says, with placeholders in square brackets:
A personal budget [what was found], but Section J does not set out its details.
- Where it looks
- Section J: Personal budget, including any direct payments
- How it is reported
- Code says shouldThe SEND Code of Practice says "should" here. The bodies it applies to (such as councils, schools, colleges and health bodies) must have regard to it, and the Code says they will be expected to explain any departure from it.
- Type of rule
- Code of Practice: should (follow unless there is a good reason not to)
- How Plenda finds it
- From the plan's headings and structure.
- What would address it
- Complete Section J with the amount, the provision it covers, the outcomes it supports and any direct payment arrangements.
- The requirement
- See the requirement and every check that looks for it
- Rule id
chk.j.details_not_found- Rules version
- england-2026.10
- Law as at
- 30 September 2026
Sources
- SEND Code of Practice 2015, Section J row, para 9.69Code of Practice: should (follow unless there is a good reason not to)
- SEND Code of Practice 2015, Section F row (personal budget details set out in Section J), para 9.69Code of Practice: should (follow unless there is a good reason not to)
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