Commentary on Sections Part 1: Collaboration by education bodies Section 3 - Duty of education body to collaborate
8.Subsection (1) places a duty on an education body to consider from time to time, when exercising its other functions, whether the exercise of its powers of collaboration would further the collaboration objective. A local authority’s other functions consist only of its education functions (see the definition of “functions” in section 8). If it considers that collaborating would further the objective, the education body must seek to exercise its powers of collaboration (subsection (2)).
9.Subsection (3) limits the duty to consider collaboration imposed on further education institutions to the provision of education for those up to 19.