Part 4Apprenticeships and adult education and training: role of Secretary of State

Chapter 1Apprenticeships and adult education and training

Education and training for persons aged 19 or over etc.

87Learning aims for persons aged 19 or over: provision of facilities

(1)

F1The Secretary of State must secure the provision of such facilities as the Secretary of State considers appropriate for relevant education or training for persons falling within subsection (3) which is suitable to their requirements.

F2(1A)

The Mayor of London, each combined authority and CCA, and each district council or county council that is a strategic authority, must secure the provision in relation to the relevant area of such facilities as it considers appropriate for relevant education or training for persons falling within subsection (3) which is suitable to their requirements.

(1B)

Subsection (1) does not apply to the provision of facilities to the extent that subsection (1A) applies to the provision of those facilities.

(2)

Relevant education or training is education or vocational training provided by means of a course of study for a qualification to which paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 applies.

(3)

The persons falling within this subsection are persons who—

(a)

are aged 19 or over, and are not persons aged under 25 F3for whom an EHC plan is maintained,

(b)

do not have the qualification in question or one (including one awarded by a person outside England) which appears to the F4person, authority or council exercising the function under subsection (1) or (1A) to be at a comparable or higher level, and

(c)

satisfy such conditions as may be specified in regulations.

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(6)

For the purposes of this section—

“education” includes full-time and part-time education;

F7“relevant area” means—

(a)

in relation to the Mayor of London, Greater London;

(b)

in relation to a combined authority or CCA, its area;

(c)

in relation to a district council or county council that is a strategic authority, the council’s area;

“training” includes full-time and part-time training.