Schools or classrooms, departments and study groups may be established for children, pupils and students with mental, physical, visual or hearing impairments, severe speech impairments, severe developmental learning disabilities, severe developmental behavioural disorders, co-disability with multiple impairments or autism (Section 16(9) of the Schools Act).
The establishment of a separate school for children, pupils or students pursuant to Section 16(9) of the Education Act is subject to an approval procedure for registration in the register of schools and educational establishments (
In the case of schools established by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (‘the Ministry’) or registered churches or religious societies which have been granted authorisation to exercise the special right to establish ecclesiastical schools, the approval of the Ministry shall be required for the establishment of a class, department or study group pursuant to Paragraph 16(9) of the Education Act, and in the case of other schools, the approval of the regional authority shall be required.
The reason for the need for the consent of the competent public authority is, in particular, the increased financial burden of these measures and compliance with the strategy for the development of the school network. There is no express legal entitlement to the establishment of a class, department or study group pursuant to Section 16(9) of the Education Act; these organisational measures cannot be implemented in practice without the consent of the competent public authority.
Education of children, pupils or students with mental, physical, visual or hearing impairments, severe speech impairments, severe developmental learning disabilities, severe developmental behavioural disorders, concomitant multi-impairment or autism shall, as a rule, take place in a school, class, department or study group that is not established pursuant to Section 16(9) of the Schools Act, using support measures. In the case of kindergartens and primary schools, especially in the catchment school near the residence of the child or pupil.
If the school counselling establishment finds that, due to the nature of the special educational needs of the child, pupil or student or the course and results of the provision of support measures to date, the support measures alone would not be sufficient to fulfil its educational possibilities and to exercise its right to education, its inclusion in a class, study group or department or admission to a school established pursuant to Section 16(9) of the Schools Act is possible. The condition for inclusion is a written request from an adult pupil or student or a child's or pupil's legal representative, a recommendation from a school counselling facility and compliance of this procedure with the interests of the child, pupil or student.
In such a case, the school may request approval for the establishment of a class, department or study group pursuant to Section 16(9) of the Schools Act.
The application shall be submitted in advance for each class, department and study group for each school year.
The exact date of application is published by the locally competent regional authority (usually June to August preceding the school year in which the class, department or study group is to be established).
The application form is not provided for, as a general rule the application shall contain the following elements:
The specific requirements of the application can be found on the website of the regional authority.
You submit your application in a data box directly to the locally competent regional authority.
In the case of schools established by the Ministry or registered churches or religious societies, by means of a data box or through the Ministry’s Submission Portal.
Data boxes of regional authorities:
| South Bohemian Region | kdib3yy |
| South Moravian Region | x2pbqzq |
| Karlovy Vary Region (Karlovy Vary Region) | siqbxt2 |
| Category: Vysočina Region | ksab3eu |
| Category: Hradec Králové Region | gcgbp3q |
| Category: Liberec Region | c5kbvkw |
| Moravian-Silesian Region | 8x6bxsd |
| Olomouc Region | qiabfmf |
| Category: Pardubice Region | z28bwu9 |
| Pilsen Region (Pilsen Region) | zzjbr3p |
| Central Bohemian Region | Keebyyf |
| Ústí nad Labem Region | t9zbsva |
| Zlín Region | scsbwku |
| Municipality of Prague | 48ia97h |
| Ministry data box | vidaawt |
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The education of children, pupils or students in a class, study group or department established pursuant to Section 16(9) of the Schools Act allows special educational needs to be taken into account where support measures provided in a school, class, department or study group not established pursuant to Section 16(9) of the Schools Act are insufficient to fulfil educational opportunities and to exercise the right to education.
These include, in particular, specific measures in the organisation of education (e.g. the extent of the provision of special pedagogical care, a reduced number of children, pupils or students), teaching led by special teachers with the support of system-funded teaching assistants, but also the concentrated use of support measures (special textbooks, special teaching aids, compensatory aids).
The decision of the Ministry may be appealed to the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, and the decision of the Regional Authority may be appealed to the Ministry.
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