Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25)

Part 1 Duty to participate in education or training: England

Chapter 2 Local education authorities and educational institutions etc

Information

17 Sharing and use of information held for purposes of support services or functions under this Part

(1) Any persons within subsection (2) may provide relevant information to each other.

(2) Those persons are—

(a) a local education authority in England, and

(b) a service provider of that authority.

(3) Information provided under subsection (1) may only be used by the person to whom it is provided for a purpose which is a relevant purpose in relation to that person.

(4) A local education authority in England may use relevant information held by it for any relevant purpose.

(5) A local education authority in England may provide relevant information to any other such authority for a purpose which is a relevant purpose in relation to that other authority.

(6) A service provider of a local education authority in England may provide relevant information to any other service provider of that or any other such authority for a purpose which is a relevant purpose in relation to that other service provider.

(7) In this section—

• “relevant information”, in relation to a person providing or holding information, means information which—

  (a)

  is held by the person for a relevant purpose, and

  (b)

  is about a young person or a relevant young adult in England;

• “relevant purpose”—

  (a)

  in relation to a local education authority, means the purpose of, or a purpose connected with, the exercise of any function of the authority—

  (i)

  under this Part, or

  (ii)

  under or by virtue of sections 68 to 78;

  (b)

  in relation to a service provider of a local education authority (other than the authority in question), means the purpose of providing services of the kind mentioned in section 68(1);

• “service provider”, in relation to a local education authority in England, means—

  (a)

  where the authority itself provides services in exercise of its functions under subsection (1) of section 68, the authority;

  (b)

  where, in exercise of its functions under subsection (3)(b) of that section, the authority makes arrangements for the provision of services, the person providing those services.

(8) In subsection (7)—

(a) “young person” means a person who has attained the age of 13 but not the age of 20, and

(b) “relevant young adult” means a person who—

(i) has attained the age of 20 but not the age of 25, and

(ii) has a learning difficulty;

and subsections (5) and (6) of section 13 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21) (construction of references to learning difficulties) apply for this purpose.