{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-england-regulations-2000/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/107",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursery Education (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amount of grant",
  "text": "(1) Paragraphs (2) to (5) apply for the purposes of regulations 7 and 8.\n(2) The following expressions have the following meanings–\n“allowable unit cost” means the average cost per child to the provider of the nursery education of providing that education for the children for whom it is provided during the grant period;\n“approved Early Years Development Plan” means an Early Years Development Plan which has been approved by the Secretary of State and in respect of which that approval is extant;\n“Early Years Development Partnership” means a body established by a local education authority under section 119 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“Early Years Development Plan” means a statement and annexes prepared by a local education authority, in conjunction with the Early Years Development Partnership, pursuant to section 120 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, setting out their proposals for the provision of nursery education in their area;\n“grant period” means a period referred to in paragraph (3) or paragraph (4), as the case may be;\n“head count” means a count conducted by a provider of nursery education of the children attending for the purpose of nursery education during the week notified for the taking of the count by, in the case of provision taking place within an area in respect of which an approved Early Years Development Plan is operating, the local education authority and in any other case the Secretary of State;\n“reckonable children” has the meaning given to it by regulation 7(8);\n“Revenue Support Grant” has the meaning given to it by section 79 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“session” means any period during which nursery education is provided on any one day, disregarding any break of less than one hour;\n“unit amount” means any amount specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of determining grants.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (5), where the nursery education in respect of which grant is made is provided at a school, the amount of grant shall be determined in respect of a period (“the grant period”) comprising a term.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), where the nursery education in respect of which grant is made is provided otherwise than at a school, the amount of grant shall be determined in respect of a period (“the grant period”) which is equivalent, or approximates to, a school term.\n(5) Where the nursery education in respect of which a grant is made is provided in an area in respect of which an approved Early Years Development Plan is in place, and that plan provides for the payment of grant to be made in respect of the period of half a term then the grant period for the purposes of paragraph (3) or, as the case may be paragraph (4), shall be half a term or half a school term, respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/107/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:37.067829+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}