Placement requests
As set out in the Code of Practice, the 2004 Act enables parents and carers to make a placing request for their child to attend a school managed by an education authority, other than the authority for the area in which the child lives.1Supporting Children’s Learning: Statutory Guidance on the Education (Additional Support for Learning) Scotland Act 2004 (as amended) Code of Practice (Third Edition) 2017, page 61.