Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 Explanatory Notes

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

2009 CHAPTER 22

Commentary on Sections

Part 4: the Chief Executive of Skills Funding

Chapter 3: Chief Executive’s functions: supplementary

Strategies

Section 115: Persons with learning difficulties

322. This section provides that in performing the functions of the office, the Chief Executive must have regard to the needs of persons who are aged 19 or over who have learning difficulties (other than person aged under 25 who are subject to a learning difficulty assessment (under section 139A of the Learning and Skills Act 2000)) and persons with learning difficulties who are subject to adult detention. “A learning difficulty” is defined in subsections (2) and (3).