# The Education Standards Fund (England) Regulations 2000, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations–
“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;
“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;
“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
“advanced education” means full-time education for the purposes of–
(a) a course in preparation for a degree, a diploma of higher education, a higher national diploma, a higher national diploma of the Business and Technician Education Council or the Scottish Vocational Education Council, or a teaching qualification; or
(b) any other course which is of a standard above ordinary national diploma, a diploma of the Business and Technician Education Council or a national certificate of the Scottish Vocational Education Council, a general certificate of education (advanced level), a Scottish certificate of education (higher grade) or a Scottish certificate of Sixth Year Studies.
“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;
“approved expenditure” means any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3 below;
“beacon school” means a maintained school participating in the Department for Education and Employment’s programme for beacon schools which requires schools to undertake responsibilities in relation to disseminating good practice in schools;
“city learning centre” means a centre established by a partnership of education authorities and schools in an area which is included in Excellence in Cities to develop, support and provide teaching and learning through information and communication technology;
“determine” means determine by notice in writing;
“DomEx project” means the project developed by a partnership of education authorities and other bodies which links city learning centres with the education centre based at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, to develop, support and provide teaching and learning through information and communication technology;
“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 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;
“Excellence in Cities” means the programme of action by the Department for Education and Employment to raise education standards in selected urban areas;
“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;
“financial year” means a period of 12 months beginning on 1st April;
“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;
“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;
“learning mentor” means a person appointed or engaged to work at one or more secondary schools included in Excellence in Cities to assist those pupils who need additional support to overcome barriers to learning both inside and outside school;
“learning support unit” means a unit in a secondary school included in Excellence in Cities which provides separate short-term teaching and support programmes for pupils who need intensive support;
“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 a school maintained by an education authority;
“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 wider education service, and the community;
“non-maintained special school” means a special school which is not a maintained special school;
“non-statutory education action zone” means two or more schools which have obtained the approval of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to their constituting collectively a non-statutory education action zone;
“nursery education” has the meaning given to it in section 117 of the 1998 Act;
“parent governor representative” means a person elected to a committee of an education authority or authorities in accordance with regulations 3 to 7 of the Education (Parent Governor Representatives) Regulations 1999;
“prescribed expenditure” means
(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 7(b); or
(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 7(b) of Schedule 1;
“relevant lender” has the meaning given to it in regulation 65(1) of the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997;
“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;
“small school” means
(a) a primary school other than a special school with no more than 200 registered pupils,
(b) a secondary school other than a special school with no more than 600 registered pupils, or
(c) a special school with no more than 75 registered pupils.
“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–
(a) mathematics, science and technology;
(b) modern foreign languages;
(c) the fine arts, performing arts or the media arts; or
(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 schools;
“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 schools;
“teacher” means a person who by virtue of regulations relating to the employment of teachers from time to time in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988 is qualified to be employed as a teacher at a school of the kind described in subsection (12) of that section;
“teaching 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; 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.
(2) The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of the definition of “ prescribed expenditure” in paragraph (1) above are that on 1st April 2000 the education authority–
(a) has a credit ceiling, as determined under Part III of Schedule 3 to the 1989 Act which was nil or a negative amount; and
(b) had no money outstanding by way of borrowing other than –
(i) short-term borrowing (within the meaning of section 45(6) of the 1989 Act); or
(ii) borrowing undertaken before 24th August 1995, other than borrowing by the issue of stock on or after 15th December 1993 from a person who is not a relevant lender.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/703/regulation/2 (the official version)
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