The Education (Grant-maintained and Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1997

Regulation 59(1)

SCHEDULE 9 EXPENDITURE IN RESPECT OF WHICH SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS MAY BE PAID

1.  In this Schedule —

“eligible training” means —

(a)

the training or further training as teachers of persons other than qualified teachers who are employed by the governing body of a school; and

(b)

the further training of any qualified teacher who is employed by the governing body of a school; and

“trainee” means a person undergoing eligible training in respect of whom special purpose grant is being paid under these Regulations.

2.  The expenditure in respect of which special purpose grants may be paid is—

(a) expenditure for or in connection with any of the purposes relevant to schools for which grants for education support and training are for the time being payable to local education authorities by virtue of regulations made under section 484 of the 1996 Act(1);

(b) expenditure for or in connection with the training of any teacher or other member of the staff of a school including, in particular, expenditure on—

(i) tuition fees, examination fees and residential and other charges payable in respect of eligible training;

(ii) travelling, subsistence and other incidental expenses of a trainee;

(iii) that part of the remuneration of persons whose employment is necessary to free the trainees for training which relates to the period during which their employment is so necessary; and

(iv) the cost of providing (including the provision of premises), planning, co-ordinating, monitoring and evaluating eligible training:

provided that where such costs are incurred for such purposes and for other purposes special purpose grant shall be payable only in respect of such proportion of those costs as is attributable to the provision, planning, co-ordinating, monitoring or evaluation of eligible training;

(c) expenditure in respect of expenses which it appears to the funding authority the governing bodies of schools cannot reasonably be expected to meet from maintenance grant being expenses incurred or to be incurred for or in connection with—

(i) any structural survey which the funding authority have required to be carried out in respect of any building used for the purposes of the school;

(ii) the dismissal (whether by reason of redundancy or otherwise) or for the purpose of securing the resignation of any person who is or was a member of the staff of the school, and the premature retirement of such a person;

(iii) any costs incurred by the school in respect of Value Added Tax;

(iv) insurance of the school premises;

(v) meeting any urgent need of the school which in the opinion of the funding authority was occasioned by circumstances outside the control of the governing body;

(vi) the acquisition by the school of grant-maintained status, and the transfer to the governing body of the responsibility for the conduct of the school, where those expenses are incurred within 12 months of the date of implementation of the proposals in respect of the school;

(vii) the implementation of that part of the curriculum for the school falling outside the curriculum referred to in section 352(1) of the 1996 Act;

(viii) the transfer of land to trustees to be held on trust for the purposes of the school pursuant to section 296 of the 1996 Act;

(ix) a contract for the provision of property and services to, or for the purposes of, the school, where the provision of the services is linked to and dependent upon the provision of the property; and

(x) payment of employer’s contributions to the appropriate pension fund under the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995(2).

(d) expenditure of a class or description relevant to schools and for or in connection with the purpose for which grants are for the time being payable by virtue of regulations made under section 488 of the 1996 Act(3);

(e) expenditure in respect of expenses which it appears to the funding authority the governing bodies of primary schools with fewer than 180 registered pupils cannot reasonably be expected to meet from maintenance grant being expenses incurred or to be incurred for or in connection with—

(i) the procurement of professional advice for the purposes of the school; and

(ii) staff absences; and

(f) expenditure for or in connection with the provision at the school of nursery education as defined in section 1 of the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996(4).

(1)

The current Regulations are the Education (Grants for Education Support and Training) (England) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/514).

(2)

S.I. 1995/1019.

(3)

The current Regulations are the Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/569; amended by S.I. 1995/543).

(4)

1996 c. 50.