Following the First Reading in the Lords, The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] has now been published.

The Bill forms part of the Government’s wider reforms to further education, providing further legislative underpinnings required to enable the establishment of Skills England.

• Abolish the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (“IfATE”) and repeal parts of the Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 relating to its general duties;
• Transfer statutory functions from IfATE to the Secretary of State;
• Amend some of the functions to be transferred;
• Enable a scheme to be made to transfer IfATE’s property, rights and liabilities to the Secretary of State;
• Make transitional arrangements to ensure that existing approvals by IfATE of
  qualifications, standards and apprenticeship assessments will continue to have effect as if made by the Secretary of State; and
• Make amendments to other Acts which are necessary as a consequence of the provisions of this Bill.

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