Commentary on Sections Information and advice Section 32: Advice and information
201.This section requires local authorities to make arrangements for advice and information about special educational needs and disabilities to be provided for children, young people and the parents of children in its area with those needs, and to make the services provided known to those people, schools, colleges and others they consider appropriate.
202.This section replaces and extends section 332A of the Education Act 1996 under which local authorities have provided parent partnership services which already provide information and advice to parents of children with special educational needs. Section 332A related to children, parents and schools. The section extends the reach of the provision in section 332A to children and young people with SEN, disabled children and their parents and disabled young people. It places a duty on local authorities to make these provisions known to the head teachers, proprietors and principals of schools and post-16 institutions in their area. The local authority may also inform anyone else it thinks is appropriate.