Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Local Education Authority (Post-Compulsory Education Awards) Regulations 1999 (“the principal Regulations”) in relation to England.

Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations gives power to local education authorities to grant post-compulsory education awards but this power does not apply in a financial year in relation to which an LEA have determined that it should not do so; and, where an LEA have determined that the power should apply only in relation to persons who satisfy particular criteria, the power can be exercised only so as to make awards to persons who satisfy those criteria. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations requires an LEA to make determinations in respect of each financial year.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends regulations 3 and 4 of the principal Regulations so that the requirements for annual determinations and the effect of them does not apply where the award is a “school access fund award”. This is defined as an award in respect of which a grant has been made to the local education authority under section 484 of the Education Act 1996 (an “education standards grant”).

Regulation 3 provides that a determination made in respect of the 2000-01 financial year is not to apply in respect of the granting of any school access fund award on or after 1st September 2000.