Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22)

Part 3 The Young People’s Learning Agency for England

Chapter 2 Main functions

Securing provision of education and training

66 Securing provision of education and training

(1) The YPLA may secure the provision of suitable education or training for persons—

(a) who are over compulsory school age but under 19, or

(b) who are aged 19 or over but under 25 and are subject to learning difficulty assessment.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to persons who are subject to adult detention within the meaning given in section 121(4).

(3) The YPLA may secure the provision of suitable education for children subject to youth detention.

(4) In exercising its powers under subsection (1) in relation to persons who are within section 15ZA(1)(a) or (b) of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56), the YPLA must have regard to things done by local education authorities in the performance of their duties under section 15ZA(1) of that Act.

(5) In exercising its powers under this section in relation to persons subject to youth detention, the YPLA must have regard to things done by local education authorities in the performance of their duties under section 18A(1) of the Education Act 1996.