http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/21/section/33K/2016-01-01Learning and Skills Act 2000An Act to establish the Learning and Skills Council for England and the National Council for Education and Training for Wales, to make other provision about education and training, and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2025-10-15Expert Participation2016-01-01 Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 99(2A)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009Sch. 6 para. 45(3) Sch. 16 Pt. 2s. 269(4)art. 3Sch. 2Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 3A-3DApprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009Sch. 16 Pt. 2s. 269(4)art. 3Sch. 2art. 1314Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 18(9)The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010Sch. 4 para. 4(b)art. 1Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 18C(9)The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010Sch. 4 para. 4(b)art. 1Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 3A-3DEducation and Inspections Act 2006s. 75(1)s. 188(3)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33D(3A)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(6)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(ix)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33E(3A)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(7)(a)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(x)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33G(6)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(8)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xi)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33I(6)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(9)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xii)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33K(6)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(11)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xiv)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33L(2A)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(12)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xv)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33M(1)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(13)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xvi)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33M(2)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(13)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xvi)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33P(4)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(16)(b)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xix)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 33Q(4)Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022Deddf Addysg Drydyddol ac Ymchwil (Cymru) 2022Sch. 4 para. 14(17)(b)s. 19s. 148(2)art. 2(ww)(xx)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 3D(6)Further Education and Training Act 2007Sch. 1 para. 14s. 32(5)art. 2(h)Learning and Skills Act 2000s. 99(2A)Education and Skills Act 2008s. 160(2)s. 173(3)(4) Part II33K1The objective of this section is to maximise the availability of courses of study included in a local curriculum formed under section 33A.2In relation to the local curriculum or curricula for a local authority, the persons mentioned in subsection (4) must take all reasonable steps in order to achieve the objective of this section.3The duty under subsection (2) includes, but is not limited to, a duty to seek to enter into cooperation arrangements where, having considered whether it would further the objective of this section to do so, the persons mentioned in subsection (4) have concluded that entering into such arrangements would further that objective.4The persons are—athe local authority;bthe governing body of a secondary school maintained by the authority; andcthe governing body of an institution within the further education sector which is situated within the area of the authority.5In this section and section 33L “co-operation arrangements” means—aarrangements under which any person provides, on behalf of the governing body of a maintained school, a course of study included within the relevant local curriculum for the school;barrangements under which any person provides, on behalf of the governing body of an institution, a course of study included within the relevant local curriculum for the institution;baarrangements made in exercise of the powers of collaboration described in section 4 of the Education (Wales) Measure 2011.c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .d. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6For the purposes of this section, “relevant local curriculum” means—ain relation to a maintained school—iwhere the Welsh Ministers have formed a single local curriculum for the area of the local authority by which the school is maintained, that local curriculum; oriiwhere the Welsh Ministers have formed more than one local curriculum for the area of the local authority by which the school is maintained, the local curriculum in respect of which the school is designated under section 33C(2);bin relation to an institution—iwhere the Welsh Ministers have formed a single local curriculum for the local authority area in which the institution is situated, that curriculum; oriiwhere the Welsh Ministers have formed more than one local curriculum for the local authority area in which the institution is situated, the local curriculum in respect of which the institution is designated under section 33C(2).Pt. 2 heading substituted (1.4.2006) by National Council for Education and Training for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3238), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 49 (with art. 7)S. 33K inserted (19.1.2011) by Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1), ss. 32, 49(2) (as amended by S.I. 2010/1148, art. 3); S.I. 2011/97, art. 2(1)(g) S. 33A and cross-heading inserted (14.2.2011) by Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1), ss. 22, 49(2) (as amended by S.I. 2010/1148, art. 3); S.I. 2011/97, art. 2(2)(b)S. 33K(5)(ba) inserted (16.11.2012) by Education (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 7), ss. 9(2)(a), 33(2); S.I. 2012/2656, art. 2S. 33K(5)(c)(d) omitted (16.11.2012) by virtue of Education (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 7), ss. 9(2)(b), 33(2); S.I. 2012/2656, art. 2