Explanatory note

Section 65 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 places the Young People’s Learning Agency for England under a duty to exercise its funding functions in relation to 16 to 18 education and training in such a way as to secure that no charge is made in relation to the provision of that education and training.

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 2010, make provision about charges, or descriptions of charges, which may, or may not, be treated as made in relation to the provision of education or training.

Regulation 3(1) sets out those charges which are to be treated as made in relation to the provision of education or training. Regulation 4 sets out those charges which are not to be treated as made in relation to the provision of education or training.

An Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as the effect on the public sector is minimal.