Part 4The Chief Executive of Skills Funding
Chapter 3Chief Executive’s functions: supplementary
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115Persons with learning difficulties
1
The Chief Executive must, in performing the functions of the office, have regard to the needs of persons with learning difficulties to whom this section applies.
2
This section applies to—
a
persons who are aged 19 or over, other than persons aged under 25 who are subject to learning difficulty assessment, and
b
persons who are subject to adult detention.
3
For the purposes of this section, a person has a learning difficulty if—
a
the person has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of persons of the same age, or
b
the person has a disability which either prevents or hinders the person from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided by institutions providing education or training falling within section 86(1)(a), (b) or (c).
4
But a person is not to be taken to have a learning difficulty solely because the language (or form of language) in which the person is or will be taught is different from a language (or form of language) which has at any time been spoken in the person’s home.