Regulation 15 Budget share adjustments in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999: Pupil numbers
This regulation applies to the extent that a school’s budget share for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 was determined pursuant to regulation 11(1) or (5) of the 1999 Regulations other than in cases where pupil numbers were weighted according to special educational needs.
Subject to paragraph (3), to the extent that a school’s budget share for that preceding financial year was—
determined by reference to an estimate of the number of registered pupils at the school; and
differences between the estimated number of pupils on those dates and the actual number of pupils at the school on those dates were not taken into account in a redetermination of the school’s budget share for that preceding financial year,
the local education authority shall determine that school’s budget share for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2000 so as to take into account those differences.
A local education authority may determine a school’s budget share so as to make such adjustments which are appropriate to take into account, wholly or partly, any increases in pupil numbers during the course of the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999.
In so far as a determination under this regulation would require the amount that would otherwise be the budget share of a former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school to be reduced, it may not be reduced by an amount greater than the amount by which the school’s budget share for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 determined in accordance with regulation 18 (transitional funding) of the 1999 Regulations could have been reduced.
In so far as a determination under this regulation would require the amount that would otherwise be the budget share of a former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school to be increased, there shall be deducted from that increase any amount for transitional funding determined in respect of the school in the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 under regulation 18 (transitional funding) of the 1999 Regulations.
A local education authority shall include factors or criteria in their formula which satisfy the requirements of this regulation.