Regulation 20 Transitional funding

A local education authority shall determine the budget share of a former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school so as to include an amount for transitional funding.

The amount referred to in paragraph (1) is the amount if any by which the school’s protected level of funding in respect of the financial year beginning on 1st April 2001 determined by the local education authority in accordance with Schedule 3 is greater than the school’s adjusted budget share for that financial year.

For the purposes of this regulation, a school’s adjusted budget share is its budget share determined in accordance with this Part and Part V but not taking into account the effect of this regulation and regulations 17 (budget share adjustments: pupil numbers), 18 (budget share adjustments: non-pupil number factors), 22 (excluded pupils), 23, 24 and 25 (additional provisions for redeterminations) and Part IV.

The amount of a school’s transitional funding shall not be affected by a net increase during the financial year in that school’s adjusted budget share arising out of changes in the numbers of pupils with statements of special educational needs or changes in the needs of such pupils.

A local education authority which maintain a former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school shall include factors or criteria in their formula which satisfy the requirements of this regulation.