The Young People's Learning Agency is a government organisation based in Coventry

Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

. It funds further education

Further education

Further education is a term mainly used in connection with education in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is post-compulsory education , that is distinct from the education offered in universities...

 in England and apprenticeship

Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...

s for ages 16-19.

History

It was established by the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. It replaced the Learning and Skills Council

Learning and Skills Council

The Learning and Skills Council was a non-departmental public body jointly sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Children, Schools and Families in England...

 (LSC) on 1 April 2010, which was the UK's largest quango

Quango

Quango or qango is an acronym used notably in the United Kingdom, Ireland and elsewhere to label an organisation to which government has devolved power...

. The other part of the LSC became the Skills Funding Agency

Skills Funding Agency

The Skills Funding Agency is one of two successor organisations that emerged from the closure of the Learning and Skills Council...

, and this shares the same building. The YPLA concentrates on people of ages 16-19, and deals heavily with apprenticeships.

Regions

• East Midlands - Meridian Business Park, Braunstone Town
  Braunstone Town
  Braunstone is a civil parish and is the largest parish within the district of Blaby in Leicestershire, England, now known as the Town of Braunstone or more commonly, Braunstone Town. At 2007 the population is around 15,000. There are around 7,500 households including Thorpe Astley.Braunstone is...
  
  , Leicestershire
• East of England - Ipswich
• London - Great Smith Street, London
• North East - Team Valley
  Team Valley
  Team Valley is a traditionally heavily industrial area of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. More recently it has become home to the 'Retail World' retail park, which makes up just a small percentage of the entirety of the Team Valley Trading Estate...
  
  , Gateshead
  Gateshead
  Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...
  
  
• North West - Arndale Centre, Manchester
• South East - Guildford
• South West - Bristol and Plymouth
• West Midlands - Birmingham
• Yorkshire and the Humber - Bradford

Video clips

• FE News YouTube channel