Education and Skills Act 2008

68 Support services: provision by local education authorities

(1) A local education authority in England must make available to young persons and relevant young adults for whom it is responsible such services as it considers appropriate to encourage, enable or assist the effective participation of those persons in education or training.

(2) Subsection (1) is subject to any direction given by the Secretary of State under section 69.

(3) For the purposes of this section and section 69, a local education authority makes services available if it—

(a) provides them, or

(b) makes arrangements with another local education authority or another person for their provision.

(4) In carrying out its functions under this section, a local education authority must—

(a) comply with any direction given by the Secretary of State under section 69, and

(b) have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State.

(5) Nothing in this section requires a local education authority to make services available to a young person or relevant young adult for whom it is responsible if—

(a) another local education authority in England is also responsible for the person, and

(b) services are being provided to the person by, or under arrangements made by, the other authority in exercise of its functions under subsection (1).