Learning and Skills Act 2000

[F1 33K Delivery of local curriculum entitlements: joint-working E+W

(1) The objective of this section is to maximise the availability of courses of study included in a local curriculum formed under section 33A.

(2) In 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.

(3) The 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.

(4) The persons are—

(a) the local authority;

(b) the governing body of a secondary school maintained by the authority; and

(c) the governing body of an institution within the further education sector which is situated within the area of the authority.

(5) In this section and section 33L “co-operation arrangements” means—

(a) arrangements 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;

(b) arrangements 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;

[F2 (ba) arrangements made in exercise of the powers of collaboration described in section 4 of the Education (Wales) Measure 2011.]

F3 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) For the purposes of this section, “relevant local curriculum” means—

(a) in relation to a maintained school—

(i) where [F4 the Commission has] formed a single local curriculum for the area of the local authority by which the school is maintained, that local curriculum; or

(ii) where [F4 the Commission has] 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);

(b) in relation to an institution—

(i) where [F4 the Commission has] formed a single local curriculum for the local authority area in which the institution is situated, that curriculum; or

(ii) where [F4 the Commission has] 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).]

Textual Amendments

F1 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)

F2 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. 2

F3 S. 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

F4 Words in s. 33K(6) substituted (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(11) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(ww)(xiv)