- annual review
means a review of a child’s statement of educational needs carried out within 12 months of making the statement or the previous review under section 328(5)(b) of the Act;
- assessment
means an assessment of a child’s educational needs under section 323 of the Act;
- authority
means a local education authority;
- Careers Service
means a body established to provide careers services under sections 8 to 10 of the Employment and Training Act 1973;
- Connexions Service
means a person of any description with whom the Secretary of State has made an arrangement under section 114(2)(a) of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 and section 10(1) of the Employment and Training Act 1973 and any person to whom he has given a direction under section 114(2)(b) of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 and section 10(2) of the Employment and Training Act 1973;
- early education provider
means a provider of relevant nursery education except that it shall not include an authority in respect of a maintained nursery school;
- head of SEN
means the person responsible for co-ordinating the day-to-day provision of education for pupils with special educational needs;
- head teacher
includes any person to whom the duties or functions of a head teacher under these Regulations have been delegated by the head teacher in accordance with regulation 3;
- health authority
has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977;
- parent partnership services
means the arrangements made by an authority under section 332A of the Act for the provision of advice and information about matters relating to special educational needs to parents of children with special educational needs;
- school
means— at which a pupil for whom the authority is responsible is a registered pupil.
- social services authority
means a local authority for the purposes of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 acting in the discharge of such functions as are referred to in section 1A of that Act;
- statement
means a statement of a child’s special educational needs made under section 324 of the Act;
- target
means the knowledge, skills and understanding which a child is expected to have by the end of a particular period;
- tenth year of compulsory education
means the ninth school year after the school year in which a child reaches compulsory school age;
- the 1994 Regulations
means the Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations 1994.
- the Act
means the Education Act 1996;
- transition plan
means a document which sets out the appropriate arrangements for a young person during the period beginning with the commencement of his tenth year of compulsory education and ending when aged 19 years, including arrangements for special educational provision and for any other necessary provision, for suitable employment and accommodation and for leisure activities, and which will facilitate a satisfactory transition from childhood to adulthood;
- Tribunal
means the Special Educational Needs Tribunal having the jurisdiction conferred on it by section 333 of the Act;
- working day
means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or Bank Holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;