# The Block Grant (Education Adjustments) (Wales) Regulations 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide for adjustment of the block grant payable to local authorities in Wales in respect of the financial year 1987/8 and subsequent years. The extent of the adjustment to be made is determined by reference to certain education expenditure of each authority during the year in question. In substance the Regulations provide for a re-allocation between authorities of this expenditure.
These Regulations supersede the Block Grant (Education Adjustments) (Wales) Regulations 1986 which cease to apply to expenditure incurred after 31st March 1987 (Regulation 10(1)). The main changes are first, that expenditure on courses for the further training of teachers leading to a qualification of the City and Guilds of London Institute is now expressly excluded from that which counts as expenditure on advanced further education (Regulation 3(2) and the Schedule to the Regulations). Secondly changes have been made to Regulation 3(3) (which specifies the various kinds of expenditure incurred by local authorities in the exercise of their functions as education authorities to which the Regulations apply) so that the Regulations no longer apply to expenditure on the in-service training of teachers, youth and community workers, educational pyschologists and education advisers or inspectors or to expenditure on the training of educational psychologists. Thirdly, a change has been made to the provision relating to consultation by the Secretary of State prior to his determining, under Regulation 7, the share to which each authority is entitled, of the amount of expenditure on advanced further education specified by the Secretary of State under Regulation 5(1). Such consultation will in future be with the Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education.
Information concerning expenditure to which the Regulations apply must be supplied to the Secretary of State under Regulation 4. Regulation 6 provides for the amount (determined under Regulation 5) of the total expenditure of the relevant kinds incurred by the authorities to be apportioned among individual authorities in accordance with formulae which take account respectively of the number of students belonging to the authority’s area attending specified courses and the number of school children for which it provides. Provision is made for converting the numbers of students (counted in accordance with Regulation 6(3)) who attend sandwich courses or who do not attend full-time into the equivalent number of students attending full-time.
Each authority’s grant is adjusted, under Regulation 8(1), by the amount by which the sum apportioned to it differs from its“allowable expenditure”(comprising the share apportioned to it by the Secretary of State under Regulation 7 and a proportion of the authority’s actual education expenditure). A further adjustment is made under Regulation 8(3) if the Secretary of State has exercised powers under paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 to increase or decrease the total grant payable to authorities in Wales to take account of the uneven burden of education expenditure as between authorities in England and in Wales.
The Regulations made in 1986 are amended by Regulation 10(1) so as to apply only to expenditure incurred before the 1st April 1987. Regulation 10(2) provides that anything done under the 1986 Regulations with reference to expenditure incurred after the 31st March 1987 shall have effect as if done under the corresponding provision of these Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/359/note (the official version)
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