Part 1: Technical Education Section 2: Information about technical education: access to English schools
Section 2 requires maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units in England to allow a range of education and training providers access to their pupils in order to inform pupils directly about approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships. In practice this will mean each provider informing pupils in school years 8 to 13 about the courses and qualifications they offer.
	Under subsections (3) to (7), the school must prepare, publish and follow a policy statement which sets out the circumstances in which a provider will be allowed access to pupils. Subsection (8) gives the Secretary of State a regulation-making power to make further provision if sufficient numbers of schools fail to comply with the duty.