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Welsh SEN and ALN law: EA 1996 and ALNET(W)A 2018 frameworks, duty to decide, IDPs, statements, assessment, tribunal appeals and transitional arrangements

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This Practice Note provides a brief overview of the law of special educational needs (SEN) in Wales.

It summarises the framework under the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 concerning additional learning needs (ALN), together with the transitional arrangements brought about by this reform. For Coverage of SEN in England, see Practice Note: Special educational needs in England under the Children and Families Act 2014.

ALNET(W)A 2018, partially in force (with certain provisions in force from 1 September 2025), applies to the following Pupils:

children with newly recognised ALN;
children who are detained;
children in Nursery Years 1 or 2, or Years 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10, already receiving additional learning provision (ALP) through School action or school action plus;
children attending a Maintained school or Pupil Referral Unit who are looked after, or who are registered at more than one setting;
children who are looked after but are not looked after children who are in the area of a local authority in England.

For all other pupils within the current SEN framework under Part IV of the Education Act 1996 (EA...

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Christopher McFarland

Sinclairs Law

Christopher is a Director within the Education and Public Law departments at Sinclairslaw. Starting with the firm as a trainee in 2013, Christopher has risen internally through the ranks to lead the Education Team in our Cardiff Office. He is the firm Legal Aid Supervisor for Education.Professional Expertise:Christopher specialises in all areas of Education and Public law. He has extensive experience with Special Educational Needs (SEN), Additional Learning Needs (ALN), Discrimination and Higher Education cases. Christopher has significant experience in pursuing complex judicial review cases at the High Court and was recently a key member of the firm’s team which brought landmark success in the case of R (Gardner) v Secretary of State for Health and ors [2022] EWHC 967 (Admin).As the Legal Aid supervisor for Education, Christopher oversees all of the firm’s Legal Aid cases alongside a busy and diverse private...

Adam Mercer

Sinclairs Law

Adam joined Sinclairslaw in November 2019 and currently works in the Education Law department under Christopher McFarland. Adam predominantly assists parents of children with special educational needs in navigating the special educational needs system. Adam is experienced in assisting parents both in England and Wales. In addition, Adam assists parents and young people with regards to Community Care and Judicial Review. Prior to joining Sinclairslaw, Adam developed his Public Law experience by challenging the decisions of NHS bodies in with respect to individuals’ entitlement to NHS Continuing Healthcare. Adam also acted as a research assistant at Cardiff University in 2014 and 2015 investigating how recent policy decisions had impacted on how local authorities use the Court of Protection to resolve disputes as to a person’s welfare, where that person lacks capacity. Adam assisted his colleagues Paul Conrathe and Christopher McFarland in bringing the case of...

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