Powers in respect of non-maintained schools
Section 58: Power of LEAs to arrange provision of education at non-maintained schools
169.This section repeals section 128 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Section 128 amended section 16 of the Education Act 1996 and substituted a new section 18 in that Act. The new section 18 gave the Secretary of State the power to make regulations, under which a LEA could assist primary and secondary schools outside the maintained sector, or make arrangements for pupils to be educated at such schools: an assisted places scheme. The section has never been commenced, and the Government therefore now considers that it should be repealed. The effect of the repeal is that the original section 18 remains in force. LEAs will continue to retain powers under sections 16 and 18 of the Education Act 1996 to assist, and arrange provision of education at, non-maintained schools.
Section 59 and Schedule 2: Minor and consequential amendments
170.Section 59 introduces Schedule 2, which contains minor and consequential amendments relating to the provision made by Part 2.
171.It amends section 13 of the Education Act 1996 so that local education authorities in England have a general responsibility for contributing to the spiritual, moral, mental and physical development of the community by securing further education (as well as primary and secondary education) for young people who are over compulsory school age but under 19, who are 19 or over but under 25 and may have a learning difficulty. It also substitutes an amended section 13A in the 1996 Act to ensure that local education authorities exercise new education and training functions in relation to those young people for whom they have assumed responsibility so as to promote high standards, fulfilment of potential and (in England) fair access to opportunity for education and training.