UK Act of Parliament 2000 c. 21 United Kingdom

Learning and Skills Act 2000

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s.141 Training programmes: cessation of funding. (opens in a new tab) Regulated
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167 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 The Council. (opens in a new tab)
s.002 Education and training for persons aged 16 to 19. (opens in a new tab)
s.003 Education and training for persons over 19. (opens in a new tab)
s.004 Encouragement of education and training. (opens in a new tab)
s.004 Learning aims for persons over 19: provision of facilities
s.004 Learning aims for persons over 19: payment of tuition fees
s.004 Sections 4A and 4B: supplementary
s.005 Provision of financial resources. (opens in a new tab)
s.006 Financial resources: conditions. (opens in a new tab)
s.007 Funding of school sixth-forms. (opens in a new tab)
s.008 Links between education and training and employment. (opens in a new tab)
s.009 Assessments and means tests. (opens in a new tab)
s.010 Qualifying accounts and arrangements. (opens in a new tab)
s.011 Further education: governors. (opens in a new tab)
s.011 Support schemes relating to education and training for persons aged 10 to 15
s.012 Research and information. (opens in a new tab)
s.013 Persons with learning difficulties. (opens in a new tab)
s.014 Equality of opportunity. (opens in a new tab)
s.014 Consultation
s.015 Plans. (opens in a new tab)
s.016 Strategy. (opens in a new tab)
s.017 Use of information by Council. (opens in a new tab)
s.018 Supplementary functions. (opens in a new tab)
s.018 Regional councils
s.018 s.18B
s.018 s.18C
s.019 Local councils. (opens in a new tab)
s.020 Functions of local councils. (opens in a new tab)
s.021 Guidance to local councils. (opens in a new tab)
s.022 Plans of local councils. (opens in a new tab)
s.023 Duty of local education authorities. (opens in a new tab)
s.024 Guidance and plans: timing. (opens in a new tab)
s.024 Strategies for functions of Council
s.024 Strategy for functions of Council: Greater London
s.024 Duty of Council
s.025 Directions. (opens in a new tab)
s.026 Committees. (opens in a new tab)
s.027 Grants to Council. (opens in a new tab)
s.028 Annual report. (opens in a new tab)
s.029 Council’s financial year. (opens in a new tab)
s.030 The Council. (opens in a new tab)
s.031 Education and training for persons aged 16 to 19. (opens in a new tab)
s.032 Education and training for persons over 19. (opens in a new tab)
s.033 Encouragement of education and training. (opens in a new tab)
s.033 Formation of local curricula for students aged 16 to 18
s.033 Local curricula: Welsh language
s.033 Areas with more than one local curriculum
s.033 Determination of a pupil's “relevant school or institution”
s.033 Pupils' choices of local curriculum courses
s.033 Students' local curriculum entitlements
s.033 Head teacher's or principal's decision as to entitlement
s.033 Delivery of local curriculum entitlements
s.033 Head teacher's or principal's decision to remove entitlement
s.033 Planning the local curriculum
s.033 Delivery of local curriculum entitlements: joint-working
s.033 Joint-working: guidance and directions
s.033 Power to amend learning domains
s.033 The local curriculum: interpretation
s.033 Local curriculum: directions
s.033 Application of local curriculum provisions to students who are registered pupils of special schools or who have additional learning needs
s.033 Application of local curriculum provisions to institutions within the higher education sector
s.034 Provision of financial resources. (opens in a new tab)
s.035 Financial resources: conditions. (opens in a new tab)
s.036 Funding of school sixth-forms. (opens in a new tab)
s.037 Assessments and means tests. (opens in a new tab)
s.038 Qualifying accounts and arrangements. (opens in a new tab)
s.039 Further education: governors. (opens in a new tab)
s.040 Research and information. (opens in a new tab)
s.041 Persons with additional learning needs. (opens in a new tab)
s.042 Equality of opportunity. (opens in a new tab)
s.043 Plans. (opens in a new tab)
s.044 Strategy. (opens in a new tab)
s.045 Use of information by Council. (opens in a new tab)
s.046 Supplementary functions. (opens in a new tab)
s.047 Directions. (opens in a new tab)
s.048 Committees. (opens in a new tab)
s.049 Grants to Council. (opens in a new tab)
s.050 Annual report. (opens in a new tab)
s.051 Council’s financial year. (opens in a new tab)
s.073 Inspectors of Education and Training in Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.074 Some defined terms. (opens in a new tab)
s.075 The extended remit of the Chief Inspector for Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.076 Additional functions of the Chief Inspector for Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.077 Inspections. (opens in a new tab)
s.078 General powers. (opens in a new tab)
s.079 Right of entry and offences. (opens in a new tab)
s.080 Action plans. (opens in a new tab)
s.081 Inspections of careers services etc. (opens in a new tab)
s.082 Inspections of education and training provided under 1973 Act arrangements. (opens in a new tab)
s.083 Area inspections. (opens in a new tab)
s.084 Action plans following section 83 inspections. (opens in a new tab)
s.085 Studies across Wales or of provision made outside Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.086 Annual reports. (opens in a new tab)
s.087 Annual plan of the Chief Inspector for Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.088 Defamation. (opens in a new tab)
s.089 Dissolution of (opens in a new tab)
s.090 Preliminary transfers: FEFC for England. (opens in a new tab)
s.091 Dissolution of FEFC for Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.092 Transfers: England. (opens in a new tab)
s.093 Transfers: Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.094 Stamp duty. (opens in a new tab)
s.094 Stamp duty land tax
s.095 Contracts of employment. (opens in a new tab)
s.096 Persons under 19. (opens in a new tab)
s.097 Persons over 19. (opens in a new tab)
s.098 Approved qualifications (opens in a new tab)
s.099 Approved qualifications: Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.100 Authorised bodies. (opens in a new tab)
s.101 Enforcement (opens in a new tab)
s.102 Enforcement: Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.103 Amendments relating to external qualifications. (opens in a new tab)
s.104 Qualifying accounts. (opens in a new tab)
s.105 Qualifying arrangements. (opens in a new tab)
s.106 Qualifying arrangements: Northern Ireland. (opens in a new tab)
s.107 Qualifying arrangements: further provision. (opens in a new tab)
s.108 Grants. (opens in a new tab)
s.109 Grants: Northern Ireland. (opens in a new tab)
s.110 Secondary education. (opens in a new tab)
s.111 Further education corporations. (opens in a new tab)
s.112 Further education institutions: designation. (opens in a new tab)
s.113 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales (opens in a new tab)
s.113 Restructuring of sixth-form education
s.114 Provision of services. (opens in a new tab)
s.115 Consultation and coordination. (opens in a new tab)
s.116 Local education authorities. (opens in a new tab)
s.117 Educational institutions: information and access. (opens in a new tab)
s.118 Inspection. (opens in a new tab)
s.119 Information: supply by Secretary of State. (opens in a new tab)
s.120 Information: supply by public bodies. (opens in a new tab)
s.121 Supplementary. (opens in a new tab)
s.122 Careers services. (opens in a new tab)
s.123 Provision of services. (opens in a new tab)
s.124 Local authority: duty and powers. (opens in a new tab)
s.125 Consultation and coordination. (opens in a new tab)
s.126 Educational institutions: information and access. (opens in a new tab)
s.127 Inspection. (opens in a new tab)
s.128 Conduct and effect of inspections. (opens in a new tab)
s.129 Supplementary. (opens in a new tab)
s.130 City academies. (opens in a new tab)
s.131 City academies: land. (opens in a new tab)
s.132 City academies: financial provisions. (opens in a new tab)
s.133 City colleges and academies: special educational needs. (opens in a new tab)
s.134 Pensions. (opens in a new tab)
s.135 Pensions: interpretation. (opens in a new tab)
s.136 Pensions: delegation. (opens in a new tab)
s.137 Recreation and social and physical training. (opens in a new tab)
s.138 Wales: provision of information by public bodies. (opens in a new tab)
s.139 Induction periods for teachers. (opens in a new tab)
s.139 Assessments relating to learning difficulties: England
s.139 Assessments under section 139A: interpretation
s.139 Assessments under section 139A: persons educated at home
s.140 Assessments relating to learning difficulties: Wales (opens in a new tab)
s.142 Further and higher education corporations: secondary education. (opens in a new tab)
s.143 Further education sector: designated institutions. (opens in a new tab)
s.144 Designated institutions: disposal of land, &c. (opens in a new tab)
s.145 Further education colleges: governors’ liability. (opens in a new tab)
s.146 Financial support for students. (opens in a new tab)
s.147 Financial support for students: Northern Ireland. (opens in a new tab)
s.148 Sex education. (opens in a new tab)
s.149 Amendments. (opens in a new tab)
s.150 Wales. (opens in a new tab)
s.151 Transitional provisions. (opens in a new tab)
s.152 Orders and regulations. (opens in a new tab)
s.153 Repeals. (opens in a new tab)
s.154 Commencement. (opens in a new tab)
s.155 Extent. (opens in a new tab)
s.156 Citation. (opens in a new tab)
Schedules

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239 other schedules
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001 Learning and Skills Council for England
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch001a Learning aims for persons aged 19 and over
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch002 Local councils
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch003 Committees (England)
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch004 National Council for Education and Training for Wales
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch005 Committees (Wales)
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch006 The Adult Learning Inspectorate
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007 Sixth forms requiring significant improvement: Wales
s.sch007a Schedule 7A para.1
s.sch007a Proposals to establish a school
s.sch007a Proposals to make a prescribed alteration
s.sch007a Proposals to discontinue a school
s.sch007a Supplementary
s.sch007a Implementation of proposals for restructuring sixth-form education
s.sch007a Implementation of proposals for restructuring sixth-form education
s.sch009 The amendments specified in this Schedule shall have effect.
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In section 1 of the Education (Fees and Awards) Act...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In paragraph 8(3)(a)(i) of Schedule 1 to the Local Government...
s.sch009 In section 26 of the Employment Act 1988 (status of...
s.sch009 In section 124 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (powers...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 For section 161(1)(b) of that Act (interpretation: further or higher...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In section 98 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (definitions)...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, omit sections...
s.sch009 In section 18 of that Act (further education corporation: powers)—...
s.sch009 (1) Section 19 of that Act (supplementary powers of a...
s.sch009 (1) Section 22 of that Act (subsequent instruments and articles)...
s.sch009 (1) Section 29 of that Act (government and conduct of...
s.sch009 In section 31 of that Act (designated institutions conducted by...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 (1) Section 44 of that Act (collective worship) is amended...
s.sch009 (1) Section 45 of that Act (religious education) shall be...
s.sch009 In section 52 of that Act (duty to provide for...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In section 54 of that Act (duty to give information)...
s.sch009 In section 55 of that Act (inspections etc of local...
s.sch009 Section 56 of that Act (directions) shall cease to have...
s.sch009 In that Act for section 57 substitute— Intervention. (1) This section applies if one or more of the...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Section 60A of that Act (partnership arrangements: Wales) shall cease...
s.sch009 In that Act, after section 61 insert— References to councils....
s.sch009 In section 82 of that Act (joint exercise of functions)...
s.sch009 In section 83 of that Act (efficiency studies) in subsection...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In section 89(2) of that Act (orders and regulations)—
s.sch009 In section 90 of that Act (interpretation) after subsection (2)...
s.sch009 In section 91 of that Act (interpretation of Education Acts)...
s.sch009 In section 92 of that Act (index) in the table...
s.sch009 (1) Schedule 4 to that Act (instruments and articles of...
s.sch009 Schedule 5A to that Act (partnership arrangements: Wales) shall cease...
s.sch009 In section 6(1) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 (meaning...
s.sch009 (1) In Schedule 9 to the Value Added Tax Act...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In section 63A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (right...
s.sch009 In section 1 of the Education Act 1996 (the stages...
s.sch009 (1) Section 13 of that Act (general responsibility for education)...
s.sch009 Section 15 of that Act (functions in respect of provision...
s.sch009 (1) Section 15A of that Act (functions of local education...
s.sch009 After section 15A of that Act insert— Functions in respect...
s.sch009 In section 312(2) of that Act (meaning of “learning difficulty”)...
s.sch009 (1) Section 408 of that Act (provision of information) is...
s.sch009 (1) Section 490 of that Act (grants in respect of...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 After section 25 of that Act insert— General duty: post-16...
s.sch009 In section 537 of that Act (power of the Secretary...
s.sch009 In section 541 of that Act (distribution of information about...
s.sch009 In section 550B of that Act (detention outside school hours)...
s.sch009 In section 580 of that Act (index) in the table...
s.sch009 In Schedule 1 to that Act (pupil referral units) in...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 (1) Section 26 of that Act (exception for single-sex establishments)...
s.sch009 In section 31 of that Act (other functions of the...
s.sch009 In section 43 of that Act (provision of careers education...
s.sch009 In section 44(3)(a) of that Act (co-operation with careers advisers)...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 (1) Section 26 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act...
s.sch009 In section 28(1) of that Act (interpretation) in the definition...
s.sch009 Section 34 of that Act (inspection of vocational training in...
s.sch009 In section 35 of that Act (inspection of careers services...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In section 30(3) of that Act (notice by governing body...
s.sch009 In section 33(1) of that Act (establishment, alteration and discontinuance...
s.sch009 Part VI of that Act (partnership arrangements in Wales) shall...
s.sch009 (1) Section 137 of that Act (Education Transfer Council: alteration...
s.sch009 In section 142(1) of that Act (general interpretation) omit the...
s.sch009 (1) Schedule 6 to that Act (statutory proposals: procedure and...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 (1) Schedule 7 to that Act (rationalisation of school places)...
s.sch009 In paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 22 to that Act (discontinuance...
s.sch009 (1) Section 104 of the Government of Wales Act 1998...
s.sch009 Amendments
s.sch009 In Part I of Schedule 4 to that Act (public...
s.sch010 For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule—
s.sch010 Transitional provisions
s.sch010 (1) Sub-paragraph (2) has effect in relation to the Education...
s.sch010 The old Council must do its best to secure that...
s.sch010 (1) Anything being done by or in relation to the...
s.sch010 Every agreement (whether written or not), and every instrument or...
s.sch010 (1) This paragraph applies if the new Council is established...
s.sch010 At any time before the day on which the new...
s.sch010 (1) The new Council must discharge a duty which satisfies...
s.sch010 If an order under section 8(4) of the Further and...

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