Abstract
Discusses the duties of Scottish education authorities in relation to meeting the educational needs of autistic children by reference to two cases heard in early 2011: (1) a Scottish case concerning the failure of an education authority to accede to a parental request for their child to be placed at a residential school at a cost five times greater than that of placing the child at the school preferred by the local authority; and (2) an English case concerning whether a child educated at a residential school retained his looked-after child status on turning 18.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 20-21 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of the Law Society of Scotland |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- autistic spectrum disorders
- looked-after children
- residential accommodation
- Scotland
- education