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Bill · started in the Commons

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning

Make provision about apprenticeships, education, training and children’s services; to amend the Employment Rights Act 1996; to establish the Young People’s Learning Agency for England, the office of Chief Executive of Skills Funding, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation and the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and to make provision about those bodies and that office; to make provision about the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; to make provision about schools and institutions within the further education sector; to make provision about student loans; and for connected purposes.

Now an Act of Parliament

The story so farThe Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning was introduced in the House of Commons on 4 February 2009 by Ed Balls (Labour). It completed its passage through Parliament and became law, receiving Royal Assent on 12 November 2009.

What the bill does

<p>The Bill introduces a wide range of measures covering apprenticeships, learning and skills and educational provision.</p><p>Key areas</p><ul><li>Provides for a statutory framework for apprenticeships and creates a right to an apprenticeship for suitably qualified 16-18 year olds </li><li>Introduces a right for employees to request time away from their duties to undertake training, and places a corresponding duty on employers to consider such requests seriously and to be able to refuse them only for specified business reasons </li><li>Dissolves the Learning and Skills Council </li><li>Transfers the responsibility for funding education and training for 16-18-year-olds to local authorities </li><li>Makes provisions with respect to the education of offenders </li><li>Creates the Young Person&rsquo;s Learning Agency, the Skills Funding Agency, a new regulatory body for qualifications (Ofqual), and a new agency to carry out the non-regulatory functions currently performed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority </li><li>Strengthens the accountability of children&rsquo;s services</li><li>Amends intervention powers in respect of schools which are causing concern </li><li>Establishes a new parental complaints service</li><li>Changes the school inspection arrangements </li><li>Creates a new negotiating body for pay and conditions for school support staff </li><li>Makes provisions in respect of pupil and student behaviour. </li></ul><p> </p>

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Commons 4 Feb 2009
  2. 2nd reading Commons 23 Feb 2009
  3. Programme motion Commons 23 Feb 2009
  4. Money resolution Commons 23 Feb 2009
  5. Committee stage Commons 3 Mar to 26 Mar 2009
  6. Report stage Commons 5 May 2009
  7. 3rd reading Commons 5 May 2009
  8. 1st reading Lords 6 May 2009
  9. 2nd reading Lords 2 Jun 2009
  10. Committee stage Lords 16 Jun to 19 Oct 2009
  11. Report stage Lords 2 Nov to 4 Nov 2009
  12. 3rd reading Lords 10 Nov 2009
  13. Programme motion Commons 11 Nov 2009
  14. Consideration of Lords amendments Commons 12 Nov 2009
  15. Royal Assent Unassigned 12 Nov 2009

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 20 Nov 2009.