Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

It is certainly not the intention of the legislation that that will happen. While we do not accept that it is practical for the entire statement to be implemented while the young person is in custody, we interpret the phrase "best endeavours" to mean that the host authority will have to share information with the home authority, which will have to pick up the process when the child comes home. In the case of someone who has been a looked-after child immediately before or at any time since the period of detention, the home authority will be the authority that has looked after the child most recently. Our policy is that the local education authority responsible for looking after a child should be responsible for the child, and we do not want the new duties in new clause 14 to interfere with that responsibility. We believe that the information-sharing provisions will provide a consistent learning experience for young people, which will build on their earlier learning and educational experiences. Many youth offending teams and local partners already have information-sharing protocols which inform young people's assessments, sentencing and sentence plans. However, the provisions in the new clause provide a clear legal framework to support those arrangements.