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Education Act 1996

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562B Duty to take steps to promote fulfilment of potential

(1) Subsection (2) applies in relation to a detained person who is not a looked after child. (2) The home authority must— (a) during the period of detention in relevant youth accommodation, and (b) on the person's release from detention in relevant youth accommodation, take such steps as they consider appropriate to promote the person's fulfilment of his or her learning potential. (3) Those steps must include, where it appears to the home authority appropriate for them to do so, making arrangements for the provision, on the person's release from detention— (a) of education, or (b) in the case of a person who is over compulsory school age, of education or training. (4) Where the host authority make any determination as to the education or training to be provided for a detained person, the authority must have regard to— (a) any information provided under section 562F by a local authority as to the level of the person's literacy and numeracy skills; (b) any other information provided by the home authority under section 562F for the purpose of assisting any such determination.

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562B Duty to take steps to promote fulfilment of potential

(1) Subsection (2) applies in relation to a detained person who is not a looked after child. (2) The home authority must— (a) during the period of detention in relevant youth accommodation, and (b) on the person's release from detention in relevant youth accommodation, take such steps as they consider appropriate to promote the person's fulfilment of his or her learning potential. (3) Those steps must include, where it appears to the home authority appropriate for them to do so, making arrangements for the provision, on the person's release from detention— (a) of education, or (b) in the case of a person who is over compulsory school age, of education or training. (4) Where the host authority make any determination as to the education or training to be provided for a detained person, the authority must have regard to— (a) any information provided under section 562F by a local authority as to the level of the person's literacy and numeracy skills; (b) any other information provided by the home authority under section 562F for the purpose of assisting any such determination.

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