(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for the payment by him to local education authorities and other persons of grants to facilitate and encourage the training of—
(a)teachers;
(b)youth and community workers;
(c)education welfare officers;
(d)educational psychologists;
(e)local education authority inspectors;
(f)education advisers employed by such authorities; and
(g)such other classes of person, employed in connection with the discharge of any of the functions of such authorities, as may be prescribed.
(2)For the purposes of this section “training” includes—
(a)further training, whether or not the person undergoing it is already qualified;
(b)the provision of experience (whether or not within education) which is likely to benefit a person in his capacity as an employee of the kind in question;
(c)training a person with a view to his continuing to be employed in education but in a different capacity; and
(d)the study of matters connected with, or relevant to, education.
(3)Regulations under this section may, in particular—
(a)provide for grants to be payable only in respect of training approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the regulations;
(b)make provision whereby the making of payments by the Secretary of State in pursuance of the regulations is dependent on the fulfilment of such conditions as may be prescribed or otherwise determined by the Secretary of State; and
(c)make provision requiring local education authorities, and other persons, to whom payments have been made in pursuance of the regulations to comply with such requests as may be prescribed or so determined.
(4)In this section—
“education welfare officer” means any person who is employed by a local education authority, or employed by any other authority in connection with education, and whose duties include securing the regular attendance at school of pupils of compulsory school age;
“leisure-time facilities” means facilities of a kind which local education authorities are under the duty imposed by sections 41(b) and 53(1) of the 1944 Act (provision of facilities for leisure-time occupation, recreation and social and physical training) to secure are provided within their areas; and
“youth and community worker” means any person who is employed (whether or not by a local education authority) in such category of employment connected with leisure-time facilities as may be prescribed.