{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-and-early-years-finance-england-regulations-2025/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-and-early-years-finance-england-regulations-2025/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/42",
  "legislation_title": "The School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-and-early-years-finance-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Applications to the schools forum and the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) On the application of a local authority, its schools forum may authorise—\n(a) the criteria for determining expenditure referred to in paragraphs 4 to 6 of Schedule 2, in accordance with regulation 8(5);\n(b) the reduction during the funding period of any amount of expenditure deducted in accordance with regulation 8(5);\n(c) the making of deductions from the local authority’s schools budget of expenditure in accordance with regulation 8(7);\n(d) the redetermination of schools’ budget shares by removal of any of the expenditure referred to in Part 6 of Schedule 2 from schools’ budget shares where it is instead to be treated by the local authority as if it were part of central expenditure, in accordance with regulation 11(5);\n(e) the redetermination of schools’ budget shares by removal of any of the expenditure referred to in Part 7 of Schedule 2 from schools’ budget shares where it is instead to be treated by the local authority as if it were part of central expenditure, in accordance with regulation 11(6); and\n(f) the use of alternative criteria referred to in regulation 21(13) and (14) for the purpose of calculating funding in respect of sparsity.\n(2) Where—\n(a) a schools forum does not authorise any of the matters referred to in paragraph (1); or\n(b) a local authority is not required to establish a schools forum for its area,\nthe local authority may apply to the Secretary of State for such authorisation.\n(3) On the application of a local authority under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may authorise the matters referred to in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 17.2.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/42/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:41.279816+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."
}