Regulation 13 Differential funding
A local education authority shall use factors or criteria which differentiate between different categories or descriptions of schools in so far as the functions of the governing bodies of those schools justify such differentiation but may not otherwise do so except as required or expressly permitted by these Regulations.
A local education authority shall use factors or criteria which differentiate between a school and other schools of the same category or description if the choice that that school’s governing body have made under these Regulations regarding particular expenditure funding for which is to be included in their schools' budget share, justifies such differentiation.
A local education authority are not required to use factors or criteria in their formula which differentiate between—
primary and secondary schools, and special schools;
schools whose pupils are in different age ranges,
but they may do so.
Where a local education authority choose to use a particular factor or criteria, which they did not use in the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999, to delegate funding to all or some of the schools which they maintain then this regulation shall not require them to delegate such funding to a school which it is proposed to discontinue during the financial year but they may do so.