Rulebook · Plan check
Direct payment details not found
Where special educational provision is to be secured by a direct payment, Section J sets out the needs and outcomes it is to meet.
What a point from this check says, with placeholders in square brackets:
A direct payment is to be made for special educational provision, but [what was found].
- Where it looks
- Section J: Personal budget, including any direct payments
- 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
- Add the needs and outcomes the direct payment is for, and the provision it pays for.
- The requirement
- See the requirement and every check that looks for it
- Rule id
chk.j.direct_payment_not_found- Rules version
- england-2026.10
- Law as at
- 30 September 2026
Sources
- SEND Regulations 2014, reg 12(1)(j)Law (Act or Regulations)
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