Part I Learning and Skills Council for England

Main powers

8 Links between education and training and employment.

1

The Council may secure the provision of facilities for the gaining of work experience by young persons receiving education.

2

The Council may secure the provision of facilities designed to form links between (on the one hand) employers and (on the other) persons falling within subsection (3).

3

The persons falling within this subsection are—

a

persons who provide education or training, and

b

persons who receive it and who have not attained the age of 19.

4

A person is a young person in the period which—

a

starts with the beginning of the year in which he attains the age of 15, and

b

ends with the end of the year in which he attains the age of 19.

5

A year is a year beginning with 1 September.