UK Act of Parliament
2000
United Kingdom
Learning and Skills Act 2000
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What's here
1 compliance obligation
What this Act requires
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Schedules
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Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning and Skills Council for England
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
Local councils
Local councils
Local councils
Local councils
Local councils
Local councils
Local councils
Local councils
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
Committees (England)
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
Committees (Wales)
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
The Adult Learning Inspectorate
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Schedule 7A para.1
Proposals to establish a school
Proposals to make a prescribed alteration
Proposals to discontinue a school
Supplementary
Implementation of proposals for restructuring sixth-form education
Implementation of proposals for restructuring sixth-form education
The amendments specified in this Schedule shall have effect.
Amendments
In section 1 of the Education (Fees and Awards) Act...
Amendments
In paragraph 8(3)(a)(i) of Schedule 1 to the Local Government...
In section 26 of the Employment Act 1988 (status of...
In section 124 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (powers...
Amendments
For section 161(1)(b) of that Act (interpretation: further or higher...
Amendments
In section 98 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (definitions)...
Amendments
In the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, omit sections...
In section 18 of that Act (further education corporation: powers)—...
(1) Section 19 of that Act (supplementary powers of a...
(1) Section 22 of that Act (subsequent instruments and articles)...
(1) Section 29 of that Act (government and conduct of...
In section 31 of that Act (designated institutions conducted by...
Amendments
(1) Section 44 of that Act (collective worship) is amended...
(1) Section 45 of that Act (religious education) shall be...
In section 52 of that Act (duty to provide for...
Amendments
Amendments
In section 54 of that Act (duty to give information)...
In section 55 of that Act (inspections etc of local...
Section 56 of that Act (directions) shall cease to have...
In that Act for section 57 substitute— Intervention. (1) This section applies if one or more of the...
Amendments
Section 60A of that Act (partnership arrangements: Wales) shall cease...
In that Act, after section 61 insert— References to councils....
In section 82 of that Act (joint exercise of functions)...
In section 83 of that Act (efficiency studies) in subsection...
Amendments
In section 89(2) of that Act (orders and regulations)—
In section 90 of that Act (interpretation) after subsection (2)...
In section 91 of that Act (interpretation of Education Acts)...
In section 92 of that Act (index) in the table...
(1) Schedule 4 to that Act (instruments and articles of...
Schedule 5A to that Act (partnership arrangements: Wales) shall cease...
In section 6(1) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 (meaning...
(1) In Schedule 9 to the Value Added Tax Act...
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
In section 63A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (right...
In section 1 of the Education Act 1996 (the stages...
(1) Section 13 of that Act (general responsibility for education)...
Section 15 of that Act (functions in respect of provision...
(1) Section 15A of that Act (functions of local education...
After section 15A of that Act insert— Functions in respect...
In section 312(2) of that Act (meaning of “learning difficulty”)...
(1) Section 408 of that Act (provision of information) is...
(1) Section 490 of that Act (grants in respect of...
Amendments
After section 25 of that Act insert— General duty: post-16...
In section 537 of that Act (power of the Secretary...
In section 541 of that Act (distribution of information about...
In section 550B of that Act (detention outside school hours)...
In section 580 of that Act (index) in the table...
In Schedule 1 to that Act (pupil referral units) in...
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
(1) Section 26 of that Act (exception for single-sex establishments)...
In section 31 of that Act (other functions of the...
In section 43 of that Act (provision of careers education...
In section 44(3)(a) of that Act (co-operation with careers advisers)...
Amendments
(1) Section 26 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act...
In section 28(1) of that Act (interpretation) in the definition...
Section 34 of that Act (inspection of vocational training in...
In section 35 of that Act (inspection of careers services...
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
Amendments
In section 30(3) of that Act (notice by governing body...
In section 33(1) of that Act (establishment, alteration and discontinuance...
Part VI of that Act (partnership arrangements in Wales) shall...
(1) Section 137 of that Act (Education Transfer Council: alteration...
In section 142(1) of that Act (general interpretation) omit the...
(1) Schedule 6 to that Act (statutory proposals: procedure and...
Amendments
(1) Schedule 7 to that Act (rationalisation of school places)...
In paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 22 to that Act (discontinuance...
(1) Section 104 of the Government of Wales Act 1998...
Amendments
In Part I of Schedule 4 to that Act (public...
For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule—
Transitional provisions
(1) Sub-paragraph (2) has effect in relation to the Education...
The old Council must do its best to secure that...
(1) Anything being done by or in relation to the...
Every agreement (whether written or not), and every instrument or...
(1) This paragraph applies if the new Council is established...
At any time before the day on which the new...
(1) The new Council must discharge a duty which satisfies...
If an order under section 8(4) of the Further and...
Training programmes: cessation of funding.
- Do not take prescribed actions without consent; comply with asset transfer directions
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The Council.
Education and training for persons aged 16 to 19.
Education and training for persons over 19.
Encouragement of education and training.
Learning aims for persons over 19: provision of facilities
Learning aims for persons over 19: payment of tuition fees
Sections 4A and 4B: supplementary
Provision of financial resources.
Financial resources: conditions.
Funding of school sixth-forms.
Links between education and training and employment.
Assessments and means tests.
Qualifying accounts and arrangements.
Further education: governors.
Support schemes relating to education and training for persons aged 10 to 15
Research and information.
Persons with learning difficulties.
Equality of opportunity.
Consultation
Plans.
Strategy.
Use of information by Council.
Supplementary functions.
Regional councils
s.18B
s.18C
Local councils.
Functions of local councils.
Guidance to local councils.
Plans of local councils.
Duty of local education authorities.
Guidance and plans: timing.
Strategies for functions of Council
Strategy for functions of Council: Greater London
Duty of Council
Directions.
Committees.
Grants to Council.
Annual report.
Council’s financial year.
The Council.
Education and training for persons aged 16 to 19.
Education and training for persons over 19.
Encouragement of education and training.
Formation of local curricula for students aged 16 to 18
Local curricula: Welsh language
Areas with more than one local curriculum
Determination of a pupil's “relevant school or institution”
Pupils' choices of local curriculum courses
Students' local curriculum entitlements
Head teacher's or principal's decision as to entitlement
Delivery of local curriculum entitlements
Head teacher's or principal's decision to remove entitlement
Planning the local curriculum
Delivery of local curriculum entitlements: joint-working
Joint-working: guidance and directions
Power to amend learning domains
The local curriculum: interpretation
Local curriculum: directions
Application of local curriculum provisions to students who are registered pupils of special schools or who have additional learning needs
Application of local curriculum provisions to institutions within the higher education sector
Provision of financial resources.
Financial resources: conditions.
Funding of school sixth-forms.
Assessments and means tests.
Qualifying accounts and arrangements.
Further education: governors.
Research and information.
Persons with additional learning needs.
Equality of opportunity.
Plans.
Strategy.
Use of information by Council.
Supplementary functions.
Directions.
Committees.
Grants to Council.
Annual report.
Council’s financial year.
Inspectors of Education and Training in Wales.
Some defined terms.
The extended remit of the Chief Inspector for Wales.
Additional functions of the Chief Inspector for Wales.
Inspections.
General powers.
Right of entry and offences.
Action plans.
Inspections of careers services etc.
Inspections of education and training provided under 1973 Act arrangements.
Area inspections.
Action plans following section 83 inspections.
Studies across Wales or of provision made outside Wales.
Annual reports.
Annual plan of the Chief Inspector for Wales.
Defamation.
Dissolution of
Preliminary transfers: FEFC for England.
Dissolution of FEFC for Wales.
Transfers: England.
Transfers: Wales.
Stamp duty.
Stamp duty land tax
Contracts of employment.
Persons under 19.
Persons over 19.
Approved qualifications
Approved qualifications: Wales.
Authorised bodies.
Enforcement
Enforcement: Wales.
Amendments relating to external qualifications.
Qualifying accounts.
Qualifying arrangements.
Qualifying arrangements: Northern Ireland.
Qualifying arrangements: further provision.
Grants.
Grants: Northern Ireland.
Secondary education.
Further education corporations.
Further education institutions: designation.
Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
Restructuring of sixth-form education
Provision of services.
Consultation and coordination.
Local education authorities.
Educational institutions: information and access.
Inspection.
Information: supply by Secretary of State.
Information: supply by public bodies.
Supplementary.
Careers services.
Provision of services.
Local authority: duty and powers.
Consultation and coordination.
Educational institutions: information and access.
Inspection.
Conduct and effect of inspections.
Supplementary.
City academies.
City academies: land.
City academies: financial provisions.
City colleges and academies: special educational needs.
Pensions.
Pensions: interpretation.
Pensions: delegation.
Recreation and social and physical training.
Wales: provision of information by public bodies.
Induction periods for teachers.
Assessments relating to learning difficulties: England
Assessments under section 139A: interpretation
Assessments under section 139A: persons educated at home
Assessments relating to learning difficulties: Wales
Further and higher education corporations: secondary education.
Further education sector: designated institutions.
Designated institutions: disposal of land, &c.
Further education colleges: governors’ liability.
Financial support for students.
Financial support for students: Northern Ireland.
Sex education.
Amendments.
Wales.
Transitional provisions.
Orders and regulations.
Repeals.
Commencement.
Extent.
Citation.
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