14-19 learning provision

The sector provides learning and skills provision to learners aged 14-19, and learners with learning difficulties and disabilities aged up to 25. The following areas are covered:

• Information, advice and guidance
• Workforce and community development
• Vulnerable and disadvantaged learners
• Apprenticeships
• Advocacy and the learner voice

It is crucial that the sector in engaged at the local level through 14-19 Partnerships and Children's Trusts. Guidance for such partnerships is available.

Funding for young people's learning is transferred to local authorities - with the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) as the 'enabling' organisation working with Regional Development Agencies and groupings of local authorities in both sub-regional planning and regional planning groups.

Further information about the YPLA and related structures is available along with the YPLA presentation from the Third Sector Learning Alliance 'Meet the Agencies' event.