Although that offers nothing new in the process of placing requests and deemed decisions, it gives parity to children with additional support needs as well as definite timescales.The regulations deal with the provision of information by an education authority with the purpose of ensuring that the appeal committee has all the relevant information for consideration as quickly as possible, and that the parents or young person are fully aware of the information that is relied on by the education authority in reaching its decision, prior to the hearing.Next is the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order (SSI 2005/516). As many...