The Children, Skills and Learning Bill will:
• provide new powers to strengthen Children’s Trusts;
• improve local services for children and parents;
• strengthen confidence in qualifications by legislating to establish Qfqual;
• provide a right to those in work to request time for training;
• establish the skills funding agency which will take over responsibility - in 2010 - for adult skills funding from the Learning and Skill Council;
• establish the national apprenticeship service to administer the expanded apprenticeship programme.

Central to the Bill are proposals to overhaul the education and skills funding systems by transferring responsibility for the funding of 16 to 19 learning to local authorities so that they become the single point of accountability for all 0 -19 children’s services.