Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22)

Part 1 E+W+S Apprenticeships, study and training

[F1 CHAPTER A1 E+W+S Apprenticeships [F2 and technical education]: England

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 1 Ch. A1 inserted (26.3.2015 for specified purposes, 26.5.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(2)(e), Sch. 1 para. 1 (with Sch. 1 para. 28); S.I. 2015/994, art. 6(a) (with Sch. Pt. 2)

F2 Words in Pt. 1 Ch. A1 heading inserted (31.1.2019) by Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c. 19), s. 47(2), Sch. 1 para. 6; S.I. 2019/61, reg. 2(b)

F3 [F4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]] E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F3 S. A2G cross-heading omitted (8.11.2017) by Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c. 19), s. 47(2), Sch. 1 para. 19; S.I. 2017/1055, reg. 2(b)(iii)

F4 Ss. A2-A2I and cross-headings substituted for s. A2 (1.4.2017) by Enterprise Act 2016 (c. 12), s. 44(5), Sch. 4 para. 5; S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2(a)

[F5 A8 Progress reports E+W+S

(1) No later than nine months after the end of each reporting period the Secretary of State must publish—

(a) information about the progress made in the reporting period towards the apprenticeships target, and

(b) any other information about apprenticeships that the Secretary of State considers appropriate,

and must lay before Parliament a report setting out the information or indicating how it may be accessed.

(2) “The apprenticeships target” is that three million apprenticeships are entered into in England during the period beginning with 1 May 2015 and ending with 31 March 2020.

(3) The reporting periods are—

(a) the period beginning with 1 May 2015 and ending with 31 July 2016;

(b) the period beginning with 1 August 2016 and ending with 31 July 2017;

(c) the period beginning with 1 August 2017 and ending with 31 July 2018;

(d) the period beginning with 1 August 2018 and ending with 31 July 2019;

(e) the period beginning with 1 August 2019 and ending with 31 March 2020.

(4) In this section “apprenticeships” means—

(a) approved English apprenticeships;

(b) apprenticeship agreements within the meaning given in section 32;

(c) arrangements to undertake any other kind of working—

(i) in relation to which alternative English completion conditions apply under section 1(5), and

(ii) in connection with which training is to be provided in accordance with an apprenticeship framework within the meaning given in section 12.

A reference to a section in paragraph (b) or (c) is to the section as it applies in relation to England by virtue of provision made under section 115(9) of the Deregulation Act 2015.]

Textual Amendments

F5 S. A8 inserted (16.5.2016) by Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (c. 7), ss. 2(1), 36(2)(a)