The Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2021

ALN NoticeE+W

14.—(1) This article applies to a child who on 1 January 2022 had identified special educational needs.

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), the appropriate local authority may at any time give an ALN notice to a child and that child’s parent.

(3) The effect of the ALN notice is that—

(a)the new law applies in relation to the child on the date of the notice, and

(b)the old law ceases to apply in relation to the child on the date of the notice.

(4) The appropriate local authority may only give an ALN notice in exceptional circumstances.