Explanatory note

These Regulations, which apply in relation to England, authorise the Secretary of State to pay bursaries and grants to facilitate and encourage the training of qualified school teachers (other than head teachers) employed in schools, or by the local education authorities, included in a pilot scheme which comprises the City of Sunderland Council, East Riding of Yorkshire District Council, Herefordshire District Council, Leicester City Council, the London Boroughs of Croydon and Southwark, Northumberland County Council, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Wokingham District Council, Ashington Education Action Zone, Excellence in Cities programme—Rotherham, Herefordshire Education Action Zone, Leicester (South and West) Education Action Zone, New Addington Education Action Zone, North Southwark Education Action Zone, Southwark Excellence in Cities project, Sunderland Building Our Future Education Action Zone, and Withernsea & South Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone.

Bursaries and grants are payable up to a total of £500 for each teacher for training approved by the Secretary of State, or £700 where the teacher is employed to work in one or more publicly maintained schools participating in one of the Excellence in Cities projects or in (or situated in the area of) one of the Education Action Zones listed in Part II of the Schedule to the Regulations. They are payable as bursaries to teachers or as grants to persons other than a local education authority. The pilot scheme runs from 1st September 2000 to 31st March 2002. Teachers are eligible provided their training is not subsidised by other public funds.