Regulation 14 Additional factors or criteria

Subject to regulation 13 (differential funding), a local education authority may, in determining budget shares for schools which they maintain, take into account in their formula, as they consider appropriate, any or all of the factors or criteria set out in Schedule 1.

A local education authority shall, in determining budget shares for both primary and secondary schools which they maintain, take into account in their formula a factor or factors based on the incidence of social deprivation among pupils registered at all such schools if they have no factor elsewhere in their formula which is based on such incidence.

A factor included in an authority’s formula pursuant to paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 is not, for the purpose of paragraph (2), a factor based on the incidence of social deprivation among pupils registered at a school.

An authority may, in determining the budget share for a maintained nursery school, use a factor which compensates for all or some of the difference between the budget share as determined in accordance with other factors in its formula and relevant expenditure on the school in the financial year beginning on 1st April 2003.