4:25. All the advice obtained and taken into consideration during the assessment process must be attached as appendices to the statement:


The advice appended to the statement must include:

1. Parental representations, evidence and advice

2. Educational advice

3. Medical advice

4. Psychological advice

S. Social services advice

6. Any other advice, such as the views of the child, which the LEA or any other body from whom advice is sought consider desirable.  In particular, where the child's parent is a serving member of the armed forces, advice from the Service Children's Education Authority (SCEA).

(Regulation 13)


4:26. LEAs should draft clear, unambiguous statements.  Where diagnostic or technical terms are necessary or helpful, for example in referring to specific disabilities, their meaning should be amplified in terms which parents and other non-professionals will readily understand.  LEAs should take particular care to ensure that the text is placed in the correct part, so as to correspond with the form set out in Part B of the Schedule to the Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations 1994.

Part 2: Special educational needs (learning difficulties)

4:27. Part 2 of the statement should describe all the child's learning difficulties identified during the statutory assessment.  It should also include a description of the child's functioning what the child can and cannot do.  The description in Part 2 should draw on and may refer to the professional advice attached in the appendices.  Where the LEA adopt that advice in their description of the child's learning difficulties, they should say that they have done so but merely stating that they are adopting the advice in the appendices is not sufficient.  The appendices may contain conflicting opinion or opinion open to interpretation, which the LEA must resolve, giving reasons for the conclusions they have reached.


Part 3: Special educational provision

4:28. Part 3 of the statement is divided into three sub-sections:

- in the first sub-section, the LEA should set out the main educational and    developmental objectives to be achieved by the special educational provision over the statement