103Local Education and Training Boards
(1)HEE must, in exercise of the power under paragraph 9 of Schedule 5, appoint committees for areas in England, each of which is to be called a Local Education and Training Board (referred to in this Chapter as an “LETB”).
(2)The main function of an LETB is to exercise on HEE’s behalf its functions under sections 97(1) and 98(1) (planning and delivering education for health care workers and ensuring sufficient skilled health care workers in the health service), so far as they are exercisable in or in relation to the LETB’s area.
(3)In carrying out its main function, an LETB must represent the interests of all the persons who provide health services in the area for which the LETB is appointed.
(4)Subsections (1), (2) and (4) of section 99 (quality improvement in education and training etc.) apply to an LETB in the exercise of its functions as they apply to HEE in the exercise of its functions.
(5)An LETB may co-operate with another LETB in the exercise of functions; and two or more LETBs may exercise functions jointly.
(6)HEE may attend any meeting held by an LETB about a matter of concern to HEE.