Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780105422099
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Overview
The Act introduces a wide range of measures covering apprenticeships, learning and skills and education. It provides for: a statutory framework for apprenticeships and creates a right to an apprenticeship for suitably qualified 16-18 year olds; introduces a right for employees to request time away from their duties to undertake training, and places a corresponding duty on employers to consider such requests seriously and to be able to refuse them only for specified business reasons; dissolves the Learning and Skills Council; transfers the responsibility for funding education and training for 16-18-year-olds to local authorities; makes provisions with respect to the education of offenders; creates the Young Person's Learning Agency, the Skills Funding Agency, a new regulatory body for qualifications (Ofqual), and a new agency to carry out the non-regulatory functions currently performed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; strengthens the accountability of children's services; amends intervention powers in respect of schools which are causing concern; establishes a new parental complaints service; changes the school inspection arrangements; creates a new negotiating body for pay and conditions for school support staff; makes provisions in respect of pupil and student behaviour
| ISBN-13 | 9780105422099 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0105422096 |
| List Price | $70.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 264 pages |
| Publisher | Stationery Office Books (TSO) |
| Published On | 2009-11-23 |
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