Article 71 of Law 2/2006 on Education (LOE), amended by Law 3/2020 (LOMLOE), establishes that Education authorities shall provide the necessary means for all students to achieve the maximum personal, intellectual, social and emotional development. Furthermore, they must ensure the necessary resources so that students who require different educational attention from the ordinary one can achieve the maximum possible development of their personal abilities and, in any case, the objectives established in general for all students.

Article 72 of the LOE, as amended by the LOMLOE, defines the resources that Education authorities must have available in schools to provide for studients with specific educational support needs:

• teaching staff in the corresponding specialities and qualified professionals, as well as the means and materials necessary for the appropriate care of these students;
• provision of the necessary resources for the institutions to adequately assist these students;
• schools will have the appropriate academic organisation and will make the necessary curricular adaptations and diversifications to facilitate the achievement of the established goals for all students;
• promotion of the training of teachers and other professionals related to the care of students with specific educational support needs;
• collaboration with other administrations or public or private entities, institutions or associations, to facilitate schooling and a better incorporation of these students into the educational institution, as well as the promotion of educational success and the prevention of early school drop-out.

Article 71 of the LOE, as amended by the LOMLOE, defines the target groups of students who require educational attention different from the ordinary one:

• students with special educational needs;
• students with developmental delay;
• students with language and communication development disorders;
• students with attention or learning disorders;
• students with a severe lack of knowledge of the working language;
• students in a situation of socio-educational vulnerability;
• students with high intellectual capacities;
• students who have enrolled late in the education system;
• students who require educational support different from the standard one due to personal or academic background issues.