Education and Skills Act 2008

16 Supply of information by public bodies

(1) Any of the persons or bodies mentioned in subsection (2) may supply information about a person to a local education authority in England for the purpose of enabling or assisting the authority to exercise its functions under this Part.

(2) Those persons and bodies are—

(a) a local authority,

(b) the Learning and Skills Council for England,

(c) a Primary Care Trust,

(d) a Strategic Health Authority,

(e) a chief officer of police,

(f) a provider of probation services,

(g) a local probation board, and

(h) a youth offending team.

(3) In this section—

• “local probation board” means a local probation board established under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43);

• “youth offending team” means a team established under section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37).