Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

115 Persons with learning difficulties

(1) The Chief Executive must, in performing the functions of the office, have regard to the needs of persons with learning difficulties to whom this section applies.

(2) This section applies to—

(a) persons who are aged 19 or over, other than persons aged under 25 who are subject to learning difficulty assessment, and

(b) persons who are subject to adult detention.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a person has a learning difficulty if—

(a) the person has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of persons of the same age, or

(b) the person has a disability which either prevents or hinders the person from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided by institutions providing education or training falling within section 86(1)(a), (b) or (c).

(4) But a person is not to be taken to have a learning difficulty solely because the language (or form of language) in which the person is or will be taught is different from a language (or form of language) which has at any time been spoken in the person’s home.