The Youth and Community Work Education and Training (Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Made: 17 October 2006

Coming into force: 23 October 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 75(1)(e) and 152(5) of the Learning and Skills Act 2000[^f00001], the National Assembly for Wales hereby makes the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Youth and Community Work Education and Training (Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 2006 and they come into force on 23 October 2006.

• (2) In these Regulations—

• “2000 Act” (“Deddf 2000”) means the Learning and Skills Act 2000; and

• “higher education sector” (“sector addysg uwch”) shall be construed in the light of Chapter I of Part II of the Education Reform Act 1988[^f00002].

Prescribed education or training

2

• (1) The education and training described in paragraph (2) below is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 75 of the 2000 Act (extended remit of the Chief Inspector for Wales).

• (2) The education and training is that provided by or on behalf of an institution within the higher education sector in Wales—

• (a) for the purpose of enabling persons to become youth and community workers; or

• (b) as further training of youth and community workers;

in so far as such education and training does not fall within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 75(1) of the 2000 Act.

Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[^f00003]

D. Elis-Thomas — The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly — 17 October 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe a kind of education and training for the purposes of section 75 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”). Section 75 provides the extended remit of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales.

Regulation 2 prescribes education and training provided by, or on behalf of, an institution within the higher education sector in Wales for the purpose of enabling persons to become youth and community workers or as further training for persons who are youth and community workers. The effect of the prescription is that this kind of education and training is brought within the remit of the Chief Inspector under section 75 of the 2000 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c. 21.

[^f00002]: 1988 c. 40.

[^f00003]: 1998 c. 38.