{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/25",
  "legislation_title": "Education and Skills Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Appropriate full-time education or training",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, “appropriate full-time education or training”, in relation to a person, means full-time education or training which is suitable for the person, having regard—\n(a) to the person's age, ability and aptitude, and\n(b) to any special educational needs which the person may have,\nand is provided at a school, at a college of further education, at an institution within the higher education sector or otherwise.\n(2) Regulations may provide that a particular description of—\n(a) education provided otherwise than at a school, or\n(b) training,\nis, or is not, to be treated as being “full-time” for the purposes of this section.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1)(b) substituted (1.9.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 3 para. 83(a); S.I. 2014/889, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(3) omitted (1.9.2014) by virtue of Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 3 para. 83(b); S.I. 2014/889, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 1 modified (28.6.2013) by The Duty to Participate in Education or Training (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1205), regs. 1(1), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 28.6.2013 by S.I. 2013/1204, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:44.607074+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}