<p>The School Organisation Code</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:06 pm on 2 November 2016.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:06, 2 November 2016

My concern is about the rights of families to get an independent assessment of additional learning needs, both independent of the school and the local education authority. I’ve had several constituents who are educational psychologists contact me about the absence of a statutory role for educations psychologists in the draft Bill, and there has been no statutory obligation for families to be able to have access to an educational psychologist in the draft code as well. That means that only families who can afford to pay for an educational psychologist are potentially able to access that. Given the number of cases I get where people’s special needs haven’t been identified while they were in full-time education, that causes me considerable concern and I wondered what you’re able to do about it.