The Chief Executive of Skills Funding (Strategy for Birmingham City Region) Order 2010

Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 1023

Education, England

The Chief Executive of Skills Funding (Strategy for Birmingham City Region) Order 2010

Made

25th March 2010

Laid before Parliament

29th March 2010

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 112(1) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009(1).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This order may be cited as the Chief Executive of Skills Funding (Strategy for Birmingham City Region) Order 2010 and comes into force on the 22nd day after it is laid before Parliament.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009;

“Birmingham City Region” means the metropolitan county of West Midlands and the borough of Telford and Wrekin.

Specified area and body

2.  For the purposes of section 112(1) of the Act—

(a) Birmingham City Region is specified as an area; and

(b) the Birmingham City Region Employment and Skills Board is specified as the body in relation to that area.

Specified functions of the Chief Executive

3.  For the purposes of section 112(1) of the Act the specified functions of the Chief Executive are—

(a) the duty of the Chief Executive in section 86(1)(a) of the Act to secure the provision of reasonable facilities for education suitable to the requirements of persons who are aged 19 or over, other than persons aged under 25 who are subject to learning difficulty assessment;

(b) the duty of the Chief Executive in section 86(1)(b) to secure the provision of reasonable facilities for education suitable to the requirements of persons who are subject to adult detention;

(c) the duty of the Chief Executive in section 86(1)(c) of the Act to secure the provision of reasonable facilities for training suitable to the requirements of persons within section 86(1)(a) and (b);

(d) the power of the Chief Executive in section 110(6) of the Act to secure the provision of facilities and services for providing information, advice or guidance about education or training or connected matters (including employment).

Kevin Brennan

Minister for Further Education, Skills, Apprenticeships and Consumer Affairs

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

25th March 2010

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies, for the purposes of section 112 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, the Birmingham City Region Employment and Skills Board as the body responsible for formulating and keeping under review a strategy for the area of Birmingham City Region (article 2).

The strategy must set out how the functions of the Chief Executive of Skills Funding specified in article 3 are to be carried out in that area.

An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the third sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Moorfoot, Sheffield S1 4PQ and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument on the OPSI website.

(1)

2009 c.22.