The Education (Outturn Statements) (England) Regulations 2005

These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Outturn Statements) (England) Regulations 2005 and come into force on 1st July 2005.

These Regulations apply only in relation to England and only in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004.

In these Regulations—

• “the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996^f1;

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

• “the 2000 Act” means the Learning and Skills Act 2000^f2;

• “the 2002 Act” means the Education Act 2002^f3;

• “the 2003 (No. 2) Regulations” means the Financing of Maintained Schools (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2003^f4;

• “the 2004 Outturn Regulations” means the Education (Outturn Statements) (England) Regulations 2004^f5;

• “Academy” means an independent school funded by the Secretary of State under section 482 of the 1996 Act^f6;

• “AEF” means aggregate external finance;

• “allocation formula” means the LEA’s formula under regulation 7 of the 2003 (No. 2) Regulations used to determine schools' budget shares;

• “budget statement” means the statement referred to in section 52(1) of the 1998 Act;

• “capital expenditure” means expenditure which the LEA propose to capitalise in their accounts in accordance with proper practices being those accounting practices—

  1. (i)

     which the LEA are required to follow by virtue of any enactment, or

  2. (ii)

     which so far as they are consistent with any such enactment are generally regarded whether by reference to any generally recognised public code or otherwise, as proper accounting practices to be followed in the keeping of the accounts of local authorities, either generally or of the description concerned^f7;

• “CERA” means capital expenditure which the LEA expect to charge to a revenue account of the LEA as defined in section 22 of the Local Government Act 2003^f8;

• “community facilities” means any facility or service provided by the governing body of a maintained school under section 27 of the 2002 Act;

• “factor” means one of the factors or criteria taken into account in the allocation formula;

• “FE” means further education;

• “HE” means higher education;

• “ICT” means information and communication technology;

• “LEA” means a local education authority;

• “maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school, a community or foundation special school, or a maintained nursery school^f9;

• “NMSS” means non-maintained special school;

• “nursery school” has the meaning given to this expression in section 6(1) of the 1996 Act^f10;

• “outturn statement” means the statement referred to in section 52(2) of the 1998 Act;

• “PRC” means premature retirement costs;

• “primary school” has the meaning given to this expression in section 5(1) of the 1996 Act;

• “school” means a maintained school;

• “secondary school” has the meaning given to this expression in section 5(2) of the 1996 Act;

• “SEN” means special educational needs;

• “special educational needs” and “special educational provision” have the meanings given to those expressions by section 312 of the 1996 Act;

• “special school” has the meaning given to this expression in section 6(2) of the 1996 Act;

• “SSG” means the grant known as the School Standards Grant, and is the sum of money paid under that name to the LEA by the Secretary of State under section 14 of the 2002 Act;

• “Standards Fund balance” means any balance from a Standards Fund grant paid under section 14 of the 2002 Act;

• “Standards Fund Grant” means the sum of money paid under that name to the LEA by the Secretary of State under section 14 of the 2002 Act;

• “statement” in relation to a pupil with special educational needs means a statement made under section 324 of the 1996 Act; and

• “youth service” means services provided pursuant to the exercise of the LEA’s functions under section 15B^f11 or section 508 of the 1996 Act or section 114 of the 2000 Act.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, references to primary or secondary schools do not include special schools.

The 2004 Outturn Regulations are revoked.

Notwithstanding paragraph (1) above, the 2004 Outturn Regulations continue to apply in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2003.

Part 1 is in the form prescribed in Schedule 1 and contains information as to how the planned expenditure specified in the LEA’s budget statement for the LEA as a whole for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004 was actually incurred, or treated by the LEA as having been incurred, both by the schools maintained by the LEA and by the LEA, including expenditure on Academies;

Part 2 is in the form prescribed in Schedule 2 and contains information about the LEA’s planned expenditure, the expenditure actually incurred, or treated by the LEA as having been incurred, and other resources allocated by the LEA, for each school for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004.

For the purposes of section 52(3)(b) of the 1998 Act, every outturn statement is published by—

An outturn statement must be published before 10th October 2005.

An outturn statement must be revised if the LEA discover any errors.

A revised outturn statement is subject to regulations 4, 5(1) and 5(3).