Rulebook · Time limit
Mediation certificate (if you do not want mediation)
The mediation adviser must give you the certificate you need to appeal.
- How it is counted
- Within 3 working days of being told mediation is not wanted: not counting that day, weekends or bank holidays in England.
- Whose date it is
- The mediation adviser
- What starts it
- The family told the mediation adviser they do not want mediation
- What counts as done
- The mediation certificate was issued
- Type of rule
- Law (Act or Regulations)
- Rule id
mediation_certificate_no_mediation- Rules version
- england-2026.10
- Law as at
- 30 September 2026
Sources
- SEND Regulations 2014, reg 34(1)Law (Act or Regulations)
- Children and Families Act 2014, s 55(4)Law (Act or Regulations)
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