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Post-16 Education and Training Bill


 

Post-16 Education and Training Bill

 

 
 

Contents

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Assessment of students in last year of compulsory schooling

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Mentors for young persons

3   

Provision for young persons with special educational needs and disabilities

4   

Community leadership programme

5   

Expenses

6   

Interpretation

7   

Citation and extent

 

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Post-16 Education and Training Bill

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A

Bill

To

Make provision about post-16 education and training; to amend the law

relating to the definition of compulsory school age; and for connected

purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Assessment of students in last year of compulsory schooling

(1)   

The Secretary of State shall arrange for an assessment of every student to be

carried out at some time during the student’s last year of compulsory

schooling.

(2)   

An assessment of a student under subsection (1) shall result in a personal

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profile setting out an assessment of—

(a)   

his educational achievements to date;

(b)   

his other extra-curricular achievements;

(c)   

his post-16 educational and training aims and requirements;

(d)   

the most effective way of achieving his post-16 educational and

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training aims and requirements; and

(e)   

his other interests and skills.

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Mentors for young persons

(1)   

Every young person shall be entitled to access to a person (“mentor”) who shall

have individual responsibility to give guidance and advice to the young

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person.

(2)   

Where the young person is a student, the mentor shall be nominated by the

school at which he is a student.

(3)   

Where the young person is in training or employment, the mentor shall be

nominated by the person who provides the training or employment for the

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young person.

 
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(4)   

The mentor may be selected from any accredited voluntary body which

provides services for young persons.

(5)   

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the mentor’s duties shall

include—

(a)   

assisting the young person in preparation for undertaking post-16 full-

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time and part-time education qualifications;

(b)   

assisting the young person in preparation for post-16 training;

(c)   

advising on career development and employment opportunities; and

(d)   

advising on acquiring other skills and on other opportunities, including

engaging in voluntary work.

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(6)   

The mentor shall arrange meetings on a regular basis with each young person

for whom he is responsible.

(7)   

The meetings referred to in subsection (6) may be held in person or through

other means of communication.

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Provision for young persons with special educational needs and disabilities

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(1)   

This section applies when a local educational authority maintains a statement

of special educational needs for a young person under section 324 of the

Education Act 1996 (c. 56).

(2)   

A local education authority shall arrange for the provision of advice and

information of the type described in subsection (3) to—

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(a)   

young persons in their area with special educational needs or who are

disabled; and

(b)   

parents or guardians of young persons in their area with special

educational needs or who are disabled.

(3)   

The advice and information mentioned in subsection (2) shall include advice

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and information about—

(a)   

post-16 full-time and part-time education;

(b)   

post-16 training;

(c)   

career development and employment opportunities; and

(d)   

acquiring other skills and opportunities, including engaging in

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voluntary work.

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Community leadership programme

(1)   

The Secretary of State may provide or secure the provision of services to

encourage, enable or assist (directly or indirectly) the creation of programmes

for young persons to develop skills and qualifications.

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(2)   

The programmes referred to in subsection (1) shall in particular make

provision for the development of leadership skills and skills for future

employment.

(3)   

In securing the provision of the services referred to in subsection (1) the

Secretary of State may, in particular—

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(a)   

consult voluntary bodies which provide youth and adult training,

training in skills, management and enterprise, community projects,

training and employment schemes and services, including those for

 
 

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young persons with special educational needs or those with

disabilities;

(b)   

make arrangements with local education authorities and other persons

for the provision of such services; and

(c)   

direct local education authorities to provide such services, to secure the

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provision of such services or to participate in the provision of such

services.

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Expenses

There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—

(a)   

any sums to be paid by the Secretary of State for or in connection with the

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carrying out of his functions under this Act; and

(b)   

any increase attributable to this Act in the sums which are payable out of

money so provided under any other Act.

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Interpretation

In this Act—

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“accredited voluntary body” means any voluntary body which is at the

relevant time accredited by a recognised organsiation or by a body or

group of people approved by a recognised organisation for purposes

including the bestowal of such accreditation;

“compulsory school age” has the same meaning as in section 8 of the

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Education Act 1996 (c. 56);

“school” means—

(a)   

a maintained school;

(b)   

an Academy;

(c)   

a city technology college;

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(d)   

a city college for the technology of the arts;

“young person” means a person who is—

(a)   

in his last year of compulsory schooling; or

(b)   

over compulsory school age but has not yet attained the age of

19.

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Citation and extent

(1)   

This Act may be cited as the Post-16 Education and Training Act 2007.

(2)   

This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales.

 
 

 
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