{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998/regulation-22",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110799437",
  "legislation_title": "The Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Percentage of “pupil-led” funding",
  "text": "In determining and redetermining budget shares for primary and secondary schools a local education authority shall ensure that their formula provides that at least 80 per cent. of the amount which is their individual schools budget, less the aggregate of the sum of the budget shares of special schools and any transitional funding determined under regulation 18, is allocated in one or more of the following manners—\n(a) in accordance with regulation 11(1) or (5);\n(b) in accordance with any other factors or criteria using pupil numbers which provide for the same funding for pupils of the same age irrespective of the nature of the school which they attend;\n(c) to places in primary schools which the authority recognise as reserved for children in nursery classes;\n(d) for children with special educational needs who do not have statements of special educational needs but only up to 5 per cent. of the total amount allocated by the authority to primary and secondary schools from their individual schools budget;\n(e) to places in primary or secondary schools which the authority recognise as reserved for children with special educational needs;\n(f) for pupils with statements of special educational needs where funding in respect of such pupils forms part of schools' delegated budgets;\n(g) by reference to any or all of the following: the recruitment of, the length, type and subject matter of courses taken by, and the achievements of, pupils in a sixth form at a school; and\n(h) in the case of a local education authority in Wales, by reference to the record of a school in recruiting and retaining pupils in the sixth form by comparison with other schools in Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110799437/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:10.159431+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}