# The Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1998, Paragraph 28: Strategic management


Expenditure in their capacity as a local education authority in relation to—
(a) the Chief Education Officer and his personal staff;
(b) planning for the education service as a whole;
(c) the administration of committees dealing with education;
(d) revenue budget preparation, the production and publication of accounts and external audit;
(e) administration of grants to the authority (including preparation of applications), functions imposed by or under Chapter IV of Part II of the 1998 Act and, where it is the authority’s duty to do so, ensuring payments are made in respect of taxation, national insurance and superannuation contributions;
(f) authorisation and monitoring of expenditure which does not form part of schools' delegated budgets (including expenditure in respect of schools which do not have delegated budgets) and all financial administration relating thereto;
(g) internal audit and other tasks necessary for the discharge of the authority’s chief finance officer’s responsibilities under section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972;
(h) recruitment, training and personnel management of staff funded by expenditure not forming part of schools' budget shares (including staff employed in schools which do not have delegated budgets);
(i) investigations which the authority carry out of employees or potential employees of the authority or of governing bodies of schools;
(j) functions of the authority in relation to superannuation which it is not reasonably practicable for another person to carry out;
(k) retrospective elections made in respect of pensions where it would not be appropriate to expect the governing body to meet the cost from the school’s budget share;
(l) advice, in accordance with the authority’s statutory functions, to governing bodies in relation to staff employed, or to be employed, at a school;
(m) determination of conditions of service for non-teaching staff and advice to schools on the grading of such staff;
(n) the authority’s functions regarding the appointment or dismissal of employees;
(o) consultation with governing bodies and persons employed at schools or their representatives;
(p) compliance with the authority’s duties under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the relevant statutory provisions as defined in section 53(1) of that Act in so far as compliance cannot reasonably be achieved through functions delegated to the governing bodies of schools;
(q) the investigation and resolution of complaints;
(r) legal services relating to the statutory functions of the authority;
(s) the preparation and review of plans involving collaboration with other local authority services or with public or voluntary bodies;
(t) the preparation, modification and revision of an early years development plan for their area under sections 120 and 121 of the 1998 Act; and
(u) provision of information to or at the request of the Crown and the provision of other information which the authority are under a duty to make available.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110799437/schedule/2/paragraph/28 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-28
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