Post-16 Education and Training Bill

Key Points

• Creates provisions governing post-16 education and training to improve options for young people.
• Amends the law defining compulsory school age, adjusting when education is required.
• Includes connected provisions to support access to post-16 learning, including vocational routes and training.
• Originates in the House of Commons and had its first reading in December 2006 and second reading in May 2007; currently listed at the Commons’ second reading stage in this record.

Progress

The Bill is in the early stages of passage in the Commons, having had its first and second readings in 2006 and 2007. No later stages are recorded here.