Case Ref: 18 003 453 Category: Education Sub Category: Special educational needs

• The Council should carry out an audit of children missing from education for whom it has a statutory duty to provide suitable full-time education under s.19 Education Act 1996 to ensure the following: • children are receiving suitable education; • provision is not being withheld or restricted due to resources; and • where a child is receiving less than full-time education there is medical evidence to support that this is the maximum amount of education they can access. Officers should submit the findings of the audit to the relevant Children’s or Education Scrutiny Committee together with advice about whether the Council is complying with its statutory duties and has adequate commissioning arrangements and resources in place. The Council should provide us with evidence the audit has been completed and discussed by Members at a relevant meeting (for example the minutes of the meeting) within six months of our report being issued.