Regulation 5 Schools Budget

(1)

The classes or descriptions of local education authority expenditure specified in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) are prescribed for the purposes of section 45A(2) of the 1998 Act and the determination of a local education authority’s schools budget, subject to the exceptions in regulation 6—

(a)

expenditure on the provision and maintenance of maintained schools and on the education of pupils registered at maintained schools; and

(b)

expenditure on the education of pupils at independent schools, non-maintained special schools^f1, pupil referral units, at home or in hospital, and on any other arrangements for the provision of primary and secondary education for pupils otherwise than at schools maintained by a local education authority.

(2)

Where a local education authority operates a combined service for the benefit of pupils referred to in paragraph (1), expenditure referred to in paragraph 35(c) of Schedule 2 is expenditure prescribed for the purposes of section 45A(2) of the 1998 Act and the determination of a local education authority’s schools budget, provided that any expenditure incurred is commensurate with the educational benefit to those pupils.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Non-maintained special schools are approved and regulated by regulations made under section 342 of the 1996 Act. Section 342 was substituted by paragraph 82 of Schedule 30 to the 1998 Act.