particularly important and the LEA should arrange the timing of the review meeting to ensure that they can, as far as possible, participate.

6:26. When a child has been excluded from school and is being educated either through home tuition or in a pupil referral unit, the views of the child's teacher and any other professionals who know the child and his or her strengths and weaknesses should be sought.  Parents of children who have been excluded from school may need sensitive and positive encouragement to contribute to all stages of the review.  They may wish to be accompanied to the review meeting by a friend, a relative, a professional or their Named Person.  If the parent(s) and/or the child have a social worker, he or she may agree to undertake this role.

Action following annual reviews

6:27. Following the annual review meeting, the head teacher (or LEA if the child is being educated otherwise than at school) must prepare a report which summarises the outcomes of the review meeting and sets out any educational targets for the coming year, and must circulate this report to all concerned in the review, including the LEA, parents, pupils and any relevant professionals.  Heads may find it helpful if LEAs were to offer guidance as to the form which reports should follow.  This report must be circulated by the date specified by the LEA in their initial letter to the head teacher.  The LEA must then review the statement, in the light of the review report and of any other information they consider relevant; make their own recommendations; if the child is aged over 15, make any necessary amendments to the Transition Plan (see paragraphs 6:45-6:47 below); and convey their recommendations and the  amended Transition Plan to the child's school, parents and all those invited to the review meeting, before the statutory deadline for review.

A review meeting may recommend amendments to a statement if:

i. significant new needs have emerged which are not recorded on the statement

ii. significant needs which are recorded on the statement are no longer present

iii. the provision should be amended to meet the child's changing needs and the targets specified at the review meeting or

iv. the child should change schools, either at the point of transfer between school phases, for example infant to junior or primary to secondary, or when a child's needs would more appropriately be met in a different school, for example by integration (see Glossary) in the mainstream.

6:29. The review meeting and the review report may also recommend that the LEA should cease to maintain the statement.