Local Learning and Skills Councils (LLSCs) / Education and Learning Wales (ELWa) Regions

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is responsible for funding and planning post-16 education and training in England, and the equivalent body in Wales is Education and Learning Wales (ELWa). These organisations were established in April 2001 as a replacement for the Training Enterprise Councils (although they also took on other responsibilities) and their aim is to increase the standards and range of learning opportunities for businesses, communities and the individual.

The LSC has 47 local offices known as Local Learning and Skills Councils (LLSCs) and ELWa has 4 regional offices. Names and codes of LLSCs and ELWa regions.

LLSCs are based on local authority boundaries. In practice this results in a variety of constitutions including single counties; county / unitary authority groupings; and groupings of either unitary authorities, metropolitan districts or London boroughs.

The ELWa regions have the same boundaries as the former TECs; they also match the National Assembly Economic Regions.

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This page last revised: Monday, 6 February 2006