{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-partnership-grant-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-partnership-grant-regulations-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1222",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Partnership Grant) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-partnership-grant-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Partnership grant",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations “partnership project” means a scheme in which a group of schools, which must include at least one independent and one maintained school, agree to co-operate with each other and, where the schools in the group so agree, with other persons (who may include an LEA) for the purpose of taking measures designed—\n(a) to widen the educational opportunities of pupils attending one or more of the schools in that group, and\n(b) to contribute towards the raising of standards of education provided for such pupils.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4), the Secretary of State may pay grants (“partnership grant”) to a project organiser in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by that person in connection with the organisation and operation of a partnership project, but only to the extent to which that expenditure is approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this regulation.\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may in particular pay partnership grant in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred in connection with—\n(a) the release from their normal duties of teachers and other school staff to work on a partnership project;\n(b) the remuneration of persons engaged to work on a partnership project (but not remuneration which would be payable whether or not they were so engaged);\n(c) the support, training, or professional development of governors, teachers and other school staff engaged on a project;\n(d) the provision of transport for pupils and staff to and from premises used in relation to a project;\n(e) equipment, books, computer hardware and software, and other materials used in relation to a project;\n(f) the costs associated with entering a pupil for any examination (but only where he would not have been so entered apart from his school’s participation in a project);\n(g) auditing, monitoring or other evaluation of a project.\n(4) Where the project organiser is an LEA, partnership grant shall be payable only in respect of expenditure referred to in paragraph (2) incurred or to be incurred by that authority in a financial year to the extent to which that expenditure is approved for that year by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1222/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:30:58.691099+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}