Rulebook · What a plan is checked against

The plan must include details of the arrangements for any personal budget, including any direct payment. For a direct payment for special educational provision, the Regulations require the plan to set out the special educational needs and outcomes it is to meet.

Type of rule

Code of Practice: must (restates the law)

Rule id

req.plan.personal_budget_in_plan

Rules version

england-2026.10

Law as at

30 September 2026

Sources

• SEND Code of Practice 2015, Section F row (personal budget details in the plan), para 9.69Code of Practice: must (restates the law), to verifyStill to find: the statutory source this "must" restates. Reg 12(1)(j) covers only the special educational needs and outcomes a direct payment is to meet, not the details of a personal budget as a whole.
• SEND Code of Practice 2015, para 9.62Code of Practice: must (restates the law)
• SEND Regulations 2014, reg 12(1)(j)Law (Act or Regulations), to verifyBacks only the last sentence, not the details of a personal budget as a whole: the statutory source for those details is still to be found.

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