Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c 22) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It alters the law relating to education.

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009^[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to 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.
Citation	2009 c 22
Introduced by	Ed Balls
Territorial extent	England & Wales (Mainly) Scotland & Northern Ireland (Partially)
Dates
Royal assent	12 November 2009
Status: Amended
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The precursors of this Act were the white paper "Raising Expectations: Enabling the system to deliver" published in March 2008 and a "Draft Apprenticeships Bill" published in July of that year.^[2]

Commencement

See section 269 of the Act and the following Orders made thereunder:

• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving Provision) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3317 (C. 148))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/303 (C. 25))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2 (Amendment) and Transitional Provision) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1891 (C. 99))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2010 (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/882 (C. 35))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) and (Commencement No. 2 (Amendment)) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1151 (C. 75))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 3 (Amendment)) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1702 (C. 88))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2374 (C. 115))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/200 (C. 10))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3341 (W. 292) (C. 152))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2413 (W. 207) (C. 118))
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 3) (Wales) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/829 (W. 124) (C. 33))

See also

• Education Act

References

• Halsbury's Statutes,

1. The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 270(1) of this Act.
2. Explanatory notes, paragraphs 4 and 5

External links

• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, as amended from the National Archives.
• The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, as originally enacted from the National Archives.
• Explanatory notes to the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009.