Regulation 7
Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows—
for paragraph 21(b) there shall be substituted—
“(b)The education authorities referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above are—
Barking and Dagenham
Barnsley
Birmingham
Bolton
Bradford
Brent
Camden
Cornwall
Coventry
Doncaster
Ealing
Gateshead
Greenwich
Hackney
Halton
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Hartlepool
Islington
Kingston-upon-Hull
Knowsley
Lambeth
Lancashire
Leeds
Leicester
Lewisham
Liverpool
Luton
Manchester
Middlesbrough
Newham
North East Lincolnshire
North Tyneside
Northumberland
Nottingham City
Oldham
Salford
Sandwell
Sheffield
South Tyneside
Southampton
Southwark
St Helens
Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk
Sunderland
Tameside
Tower Hamlets
Wakefield
Walsall
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Wigan
Wirral
Wolverhampton
Worcestershire.”;
after paragraph 46 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—
“47Support for schools participating in the Department for Education and Employment’s pilot programme for improving results at key stage 3 known as “transforming key stage 3”.
48Assisting in providing extra support for the teaching of literacy and numeracy to those key stage 2 pupils who require extra support in order to reach a satisfactory standard at key stage 2.
49Support for the development of Excellence in Cities plans—
(a)by assisting with administrative costs incurred by local Excellence in Cities partnerships; and
(b)by assisting with costs incurred by schools which participate in local Excellence in Cities partnerships in developing such plans, including the provision of additional staff to assist for the periods during which teachers are engaged in developing such plans.
50Support for planning and establishing a fresh start school.
51Measures to improve standards of education of pupils whose parents are asylum seekers.
52Support for pupils with behavioural difficulties who are admitted other than at the beginning of a school year to a school included in Excellence in Cities.
53Measures to improve standards at key stage 4 through the development and support of collaborative arrangements between secondary schools.”