Duty to Participate in Education or Training (Alternative Ways of Working) Regulations 2013

Lord Colwyn Excerpts

Monday 20th May 2013 Grand Committee

[Baroness Sharp of Guildford]

Perhaps I may pose one further question to the Minister. Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act places quite a number of obligations on local authorities—in particular, the rather difficult obligation of chasing up and identifying the young persons not meeting the Section 2 duty. Guidance is to be published on the Department for Education website, but I wonder when it is likely to be published and what proposals it is likely to make. Given that the diversity of schooling now means that it is not necessarily so easy to chase up what young people are doing and how they are participating, I think that this is going to be quite a difficult task for local authorities.

Picking up the point that the noble Lord, Lord Young, made—

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Colwyn)]

My Lords, there should be just brief interventions for clarification. Perhaps the noble Baroness could keep it fairly short.

[Baroness Sharp of Guildford]

I was just going to ask the Minister whether she would like to comment on the role of traineeships in relation to young apprenticeships.