Commentary on Sections Co-operation and assistance Section 28: Co-operating generally: local authority functions
191.This section is a reciprocal duty of co-operation which requires local authorities and partners (listed in subsection (2)) to co-operate with one another in the exercise of the authority’s functions in this Part relating to children and young people with special educational needs.
192.The local authority must under subsection (3) ensure that there is co-operation between its officers involved in education and training and social services and any other officers who assist children or young people to prepare for adulthood and independent living as part of the local offer.
193.Subsection (4) provides a power to prescribe the circumstances in which a CCG is not to be treated as a partner of a local authority.