Paragraph 2 I1

Section 86 (education and training for persons aged 19 or over and others subject to adult detention) is amended in accordance with this paragraph.

After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)

The Mayor of London, each combined authority and CCA, and each district council or county council that is a strategic authority, must secure the provision in relation to the relevant area of such facilities as it considers appropriate for—

(a)

education suitable to the requirements of persons who are aged 19 or over, other than persons aged under 25 for whom an EHC plan is maintained, and

(b)

training, other than apprenticeship training, suitable to the requirements of such persons.

(1B)

Subsection (1) does not apply to the provision of facilities to the extent that subsection (1A) applies to the provision of those facilities.”

In subsection (6), after the definition of “education” insert—

• ““relevant area” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to the Mayor of London, Greater London;

  2. (b)

     in relation to a combined authority or CCA, its area;

  3. (c)

     in relation to a district council or county council that is a strategic authority, the council’s area;”

In subsection (7), after “subsection (1)(a) or (b)” insert “or (1A)(a)”.