507B LEAs in England: functions in respect of leisure-time activities etc for persons aged 13 to 19 and certain persons aged 20 to 24

(1) A local education authority in England must, so far as reasonably
practicable, secure for qualifying young persons in the authority’s area access to—
(a) sufficient educational leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of their well-being, and sufficient facilities for such activities; and
(b) sufficient recreational leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of their well-being, and sufficient facilities for such activities.
(2) “Qualifying young persons”, for the purposes of this section, are—
(a) persons who have attained the age of 13 but not the age of 20;
and
(b) persons who have attained the age of 20 but not the age of 25
and have a learning difficulty (within the meaning of section
13(5)(a) and (6) of the Learning and Skills Act 2000).
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)—
(a) “sufficient educational leisure-time activities” which are for the improvement of the well-being of qualifying young persons in the authority’s area must include sufficient educational leisuretime activities which are for the improvement of their personal and social development, and
(b) “sufficient facilities for such activities” must include sufficient
facilities for educational leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of the personal and social development of qualifying young persons in the authority’s area.
(4) References in the remaining provisions of this section to “positive
leisure-time activities” are references to any activities falling within
paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1).
(5) For the purposes of subsection (1) a local education authority may—
(a) provide facilities for positive leisure-time activities;
(b) assist others in the provision of such facilities;
(c) make arrangements for facilitating access for qualifying young
persons to such facilities;
(d) organise positive leisure-time activities;
(e) assist others in the organisation of such activities;
(f) make arrangements for facilitating access for qualifying young persons to such activities;
(g) enter into agreements or make arrangements with any person in connection with anything done or proposed to be done under
any of paragraphs (a) to (f);
(h) take any other action which the authority think appropriate.

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(9) In exercising their functions under this section a local education authority must—
(a) take steps to ascertain the views of qualifying young persons in the authority’s area about—
(i) positive leisure-time activities, and facilities for such activities, in the authority’s area;
(ii) the need for any additional such activities and facilities;
and
(iii) access to such activities and facilities; and
(b) secure that the views of qualifying young persons in the authority’s area are taken into account.