Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations–

• “the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989^f1;

• “the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;

• “the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998^f2;

• “advanced skills teacher” means a teacher who has been certified by an assessor appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment as eligible for appointment to that post and who has been so appointed;

• “annual review meeting” means a meeting to review a statement of special educational needs such as is referred to in regulations 15(5), 16(3) and 17(3) of the Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations 1994^f3;

• “approved expenditure” means any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3 below;

• “asset management plan” means a plan prepared by an education authority which sets out priorities for capital expenditure on schools and the approach proposed locally to dealing with them;

• “beacon school” means a maintained school participating in the Department for Education and Employment’s pilot programme for beacon schools which requires schools to undertake responsibilities in relation to disseminating good practice in schools;

• “classroom assistant” means an employee of an education authority or of the governing body of a school who is normally present in a classroom with a teacher and who assists the teacher;

• “determine” means determine by notice in writing;

• “early excellence centre” means an institution for providing education and other related services for children under compulsory school age (whether or not it also provides such services for other persons) participating in the Department for Education and Employment’s pilot programme for early excellence centres;

• “early years development partnership” means a body established in accordance with section 119(1) of the 1998 Act;

• “early years development plan” means a plan prepared by an education authority in accordance with section 120 of the 1998 Act;

• “education authority” means a local education authority;

• “education development plan” means a plan prepared by an education authority in accordance with section 6 of the 1998 Act;

• “family literacy programmes” means programmes which enable parents to improve their own literacy skills while helping their children to read and write;

• “family numeracy programmes” means programmes which enable parents to improve their own numeracy skills while helping their children with numeracy;

• “key skills qualification” means a qualification accredited as such by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority under section 24(2)(g) of the Education Act 1997^f4;

• “key stage 2” means the second key stage referred to in section 355(1)(b) of the 1996 Act;

• “key stage 3” means the third key stage referred to in section 355(1)(c) of the 1996 Act;

• “leading mathematics teacher” means an experienced mathematics teacher who is required to provide demonstration mathematics lessons;

• “local authority lifelong learning development plan” means a plan prepared by an education authority setting out the steps it proposes to take to improve the learning opportunities for adults and widen participation in learning;

• “mainstream school” means a maintained school other than a special school;

• “maintained school” means

  1. (a)

     a school maintained by an education authority; or

  2. (b)

     in relation to any time before 1st September 1999, a grant-maintained school or a grant-maintained special school;

• “National Grid for Learning” means a system of inter-connecting networks and education services based on the Internet which is designed to support teaching, learning, training and administration in schools, the wide education service, and the community;

• “non-maintained special school” means a special school which is not a maintained special school;

• “nursery education” has the meaning given to it in section 117 of the 1998 Act;

• “prescribed expenditure” means

  1. (a)

     expenditure by an education authority for or in connection with any of the purposes specified in Schedule 1 other than the purpose specified in paragraph 25(b); or

  2. (b)

     expenditure by an education authority which satisfies the conditions specified in paragraph (2) below for or in connection with the purpose specified in paragraph 25(b) of Schedule 1;

• “relevant lender” has the meaning given to it in regulation 65(1) of the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997^f5;

• “school day” has the meaning given to it in section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996;

• “school development plan” means a plan prepared by a school which sets out its main goals, what action is necessary to achieve those goals, the resources required and how success will be measured;

• “special educational needs” has the meaning given to it in section 312 of the 1996 Act;

• “special needs assistant” means an employee of an education authority or of the governing body of a school who is normally present in a classroom with a teacher and who assists the teacher in relation to children with special educational needs;

• “special school” has the meaning given to it in section 337(1) of the 1996 Act;

• “specialist school” means a maintained school which specialises in–

  1. (a)

     mathematics, science and technology;

  2. (b)

     modern foreign languages;

  3. (c)

     the fine arts, performing arts or the media arts; or

  4. (d)

     sport;

• “standards fund grant” means a grant under these Regulations;

• “study support centre” means a centre providing an out of school hours learning programme aimed at raising standards in literacy and numeracy;

• “summer literacy school” means a scheme taking place during the summer holidays which aims to raise standards of literacy in pupils who are about to join secondary school;

• “summer numeracy school” means a scheme taking place during the summer holidays which aims to raise standards of numeracy in pupils who are about to join secondary school;

• “supply teacher” means a teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of supervising and so far as practicable teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available to teach them;

• “teacher” means a person who by virtue of regulations^f6 relating to the employment of teachers from time to time in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988^f7 is qualified to be employed as a teacher at a school of the kind described in subsection (12) of that section; and

• “youth and community worker” means a person employed or working in a voluntary capacity in connection with the provision of facilities of a kind mentioned in sections 2(3)(b) or 508 of the 1996 Act other than a person undertaking duties that are solely administrative, secretarial, clerical or manual.

The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of the definition of “prescribed expenditure” in paragraph (1) above are that on 1st April 1999 the education authority–