Commentary on Sections Boarding accommodation: persons subject to learning difficulty assessment Section 46: Boarding accommodation: persons subject to learning difficulty assessment
118.This section inserts a new section 514A into the Education Act 1996. It enables local education authorities, when securing suitable education and training provision for young people with learning difficulties who are over compulsory school age but under 25, also to secure boarding accommodation for these learners, either within or outside their local authority area, where they consider it appropriate.