Explanatory note

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

Regulation 4 is amended so as to permit the Secretary of State to make grants to education authorities to facilitate and encourage the training or further training of those employed as foreign language assistants.

Regulation 7 is amended so as to allow the Secretary of State to notify an education authority of the maximum amount of expenditure to be incurred on training for a group of purposes rather than for each particular purpose individually.

The training as teachers of overseas trained teachers (who are not qualified teachers as defined in the 1990 Regulations) is added as one of the purposes in regulation 8(1) in respect of which grant at the higher rate may be paid. Regulation 8(1)(f) is substituted so as to clarify the circumstances in which grant at higher rate is to be paid for training educational psychologists. Grant at the higher rate is not to be paid on expenditure incurred in the training or the further training of those employed as educational psychologists but only on expenditure incurred in the training of qualified teachers, employed as such, as educational psychologists.

Regulation 9 is amended so as to relieve education authorities of the need to secure the submission to the Secretary of State of an unqualified auditor’s certificate.