Placing Requests
The Tribunal also has the power to hear references about placing requests in certain circumstances.
Where the Education Authority has written to the parent refusing the placing request
OR
The parent made a placing request and has not had a decision (this is only valid within a specified timeframe*)
AND
On that date (or the deemed refusal date*) one of the following applied
A Co-ordinated Support Plan was in place for the child
OR
The Education Authority had decided that the child needed a Co-ordinated Support Plan and was in the process of preparing one
OR
There was a reference to ASNTS about the Education Authority’s refusal to open a CSP.
*If a placing request is made after 15 March for the child to start at a specified school on the first day of term in the next school year AND a decision is not received by 30 April, that placing request is ‘deemed’ to have been refused. For a placing request at any other point in the school year, if a decision is not received within 2 months of a placing request, it is deemed to have been refused.
The Additional Support for Learning (Placing Requests and Deemed Decisions)(Scotland) Regulations 2005, regulation 4).