Explanatory note

These Regulations, which are made under the new section 43 of the Education Reform Act 1988 substituted by section 276 of the Education Act 1993, replace the Education (Application of Financing Schemes to Special Schools) Regulations 1992, which are revoked.

They repeat the requirement in those Regulations for all schemes for financing schools maintained by local education authorities to cover the special schools (and proposed such schools with temporary governing bodies) maintained by them from the financial year beginning on 1st April 1994 (regulation 2). The main change introduced by the Regulations is to require schemes to provide for financial delegation to the governing bodies (or temporary governing bodies) of such schools as the Secretary of State directs and, from the financial year beginning on 1st April 1996, of all schools maintained by local education authorities in England (regulation 3).