Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education Support Grants Regulations 1990 (“the 1990 Regulations”).

Four new items, being purposes for or in connection with which grants are payable are added to the Schedule: to facilitate access to courses of higher education by persons of the age of 19 years and above living in urban areas of special social need; to provide support for initiatives to raise standards in schools in urban areas of special social need; to promote co-operation in the education of pupils who are both blind and deaf between education authorities, schools and other interested bodies; and to help schools to offer courses leading to vocational qualifications to pupils of the age of 16 years and above.

Items 2 (teaching of mathematics in schools); 4(a) (projects to improve the quality or the range of the curriculum provided in primary schools in rural areas); 4(d) (projects to broaden the range of languages learnt by pupils in secondary schools as their first foreign language); 6 (developing the knowledge and appreciation, among pupils in schools in Wales, of the heritage, culture and language of Wales) and 18 (the training of teachers in schools to improve pupils' use and understanding of the English language) are deleted from the Schedule.

Regulation 5(2) of the 1990 Regulations is amended to reflect the deletion of item 2 from the Schedule. Regulation 6(5)(b) of the 1990 Regulations is amended to remove the requirement that an unqualified auditor’s certificate be obtained.

Regulation 3 of these Regulations permits grant to be paid in respect of the items deleted from the Schedule to the 1990 Regulations on expenditure incurred on or before 31st March 1992.