Regulation 2 Schools Budget

The classes or descriptions of local education authority expenditure specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) (other than expenditure described in regulation 3) are hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 45A(2) of the 1998 Act and the determination of a local education authority’s schools budget, subject to the exceptions in regulation 4—

(a)

expenditure on the provision and maintenance of maintained schools and maintained nursery schools and on the education of pupils registered at those schools;

(b)

expenditure on the education of pupils at independent schools, non-maintained special schools^f1, pupil referral units^f2, at home and in hospital, and on any other arrangements for the provision of primary and secondary education for pupils otherwise than at schools maintained by a local education authority; and

(c)

all other expenditure incurred in connection with the authority’s functions in relation to the provision of primary and secondary education, in so far as such expenditure does not fall within paragraphs (a) or (b).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Non-maintained special schools are approved and regulated by regulations made under section 342 of the 1996 Act.
f2: Pupil referral units are established under section 19 of the 1996 Act.