The Financing of Maintained Schools (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2003

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 INTRODUCTION

   1. 1. Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

   2. 2. Revocation of the 2002 Regulations, and amendment and operation of the 2003 Regulations

3. PART 2 SCHOOLS' BUDGET SHARES : MAIN PROVISIONS

   1. 3. Determination of budget shares

   2. 4. Allocation of individual schools budget

   3. 5. Timing of determination of budget shares

   4. 6. Consultation

   5. 7. Formula for determination of budget shares

   6. 8. Pupil numbers

   7. 9. Dates for ascertaining pupil numbers

   8. 10. Pupil numbers: Dual registration

   9. 11. Places

   10. 12. Infant Class Funding

   11. 13. Differential funding

   12. 14. Additional factors or criteria

   13. 15. Minimum funding guarantee

   14. 16. Sixth form funding

   15. 17. A secondary school’s budget share for the financial year beginning...

   16. 18. Budget share adjustments in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2003: Pupil numbers

   17. 19. Budget share adjustments in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2003 : Non-pupil number factors

   18. 20. New, reorganised and closing schools

   19. 21. Redetermination of budget shares

   20. 22. Pupils permanently excluded or admitted following a permanent exclusion

   21. 23. Additional provisions for redeterminations in relation to financial years beginning on or before 1st April 2002: (1) Former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools in the period before they became such schools and (2) Schools which were never such schools

   22. 24. Additional provisions for redeterminations in relation to the financial years beginning on 1st April 1999, 1st April 2000, 1st April 2001 or 1st April 2002: Former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools

   23. 25. Additional provisions for redeterminations in relation to financial years beginning on or before 1st April 1998 : Former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools

   24. 26. Percentage of “pupil-led” funding

4. PART 3 CORRECTION OF ERRORS AND ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE

   1. 27. Correction of errors

   2. 28. Additional arrangements approved by the Secretary of State

5. PART 4 SCHEMES

   1. 29. Required content of schemes

   2. 30. Manner of publication

   3. 31. Additional occasions when schemes require publication

6. Signature

7. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      ADDITIONAL FACTORS OR CRITERIA WHICH MAY BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN A LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY'S FORMULA UNDER REGULATION 14

      1. 1. Special educational needs of pupils determined in a manner that...

      2. 2. Pupils for whom English is not their first language.

      3. 3. Turnover of pupils other than as part of the general...

      4. 4. Admission arrangements at a school.

      5. 5. The size, condition and characteristics of a school’s buildings and...

      6. 6. A school which has a split site: the funding must...

      7. 7. Such physical facilities, organisational facilities for the education of pupils,...

      8. 8. Rates payable in respect of the premises of each school...

      9. 9. Use of energy by schools.

      10. 10. Rent payable in respect of school premises or payments in...

      11. 11. Transport to and from activities outside the school premises which...

      12. 12. Hire of facilities outside school premises (including actual or estimated...

      13. 13. Insurance: the funding must be equal to the amount which...

      14. 14. Payments in relation to a private finance transaction as defined...

      15. 15. Amounts payable to a school which is, as the result...

      16. 16. Whether a school is to be discontinued in the financial...

      17. 17. School milk, meals and other refreshment: the authority may not...

      18. 18. Salaries at a school (including actual or estimated cost): the...

      19. 19. Safeguarding of salaries in accordance with a School Teachers' Pay...

      20. 20. Social priority allowances paid in accordance with a School Teachers'...

      21. 21. The differential in recruitment and retention costs in different areas...

      22. 22. The need for single payments to be allocated to primary,...

      23. 23. The need for payments to be allocated to schools, of...

      24. 24. Schools whose budget shares would otherwise be reduced year-on-year by...

      25. 25. Contracts to which the governing body of a school are...

      26. 26. Effect of taxation on schools.

      27. 27. Housing development or armed forces movements leading to a reduction...

      28. 28. Such items of expenditure in connection with provision for pupils...

      29. 29. Incidence of Newly Qualified Teachers.

      30. 30. Incidence of pupils from ethnic minority groups having below average...

      31. 31. Incidence of nursery classes and places recognised by the authority...

      32. 32. Prior attainment of pupils entering a school.

      33. 33. Advanced Skills Teachers employed at a school.

      34. 34. Permanent exclusions from a school (including estimates).

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      THE MINIMUM FUNDING GUARANTEE

      1. 1. In this Schedule— (a) references to the number of pupils...

      2. 2. Subject to paragraphs 3 and 4, the guaranteed funding level...

      3. 3. Save where paragraph 4 applies, where the relevant number of...

      4. 4. Where a school opens on or after 1st April 2004...

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      CONTENTS OF SCHEMES

      1. 1. The carrying forward from one financial year to another of...

      2. 2. The carrying forward from one financial year to another of...

      3. 3. Amounts which may be charged against schools' budget shares.

      4. 4. Amounts received by schools which may be retained by their...

      5. 5. The imposition, by or under the scheme, of conditions which...

      6. 6. Terms on which services and facilities are provided by the...

      7. 7. The payment of interest by or to the authority.

      8. 8. The times at which amounts equal in total to the...

      9. 9. The virement between budget heads within the delegated budget.

      10. 10. Circumstances in which the authority may delegate to the governing...

      11. 11. The use of delegated budgets and of sums made available...

      12. 12. Borrowing by governing bodies.

      13. 13. The banking arrangements that may be made by governing bodies....

      14. 14. A statement as to the personal liability of governors in...

      15. 15. A statement as to the allowances payable to governors of...

      16. 16. The keeping of a register of any business interests of...

      17. 17. The provision of information by and to the governing body....

      18. 18. The maintenance of inventories of assets.

      19. 19. Plans of a governing body’s expenditure.

      20. 20. A statement as to the taxation of sums paid or...

      21. 21. Insurance.

      22. 22. The use of delegated budgets by governing bodies so as...

      23. 23. The repayment to the Secretary of State of loans made...

      24. 24. The provision of legal advice to the governing body.

      25. 25. Funding for child protection issues.

      26. 26. School meals.

      27. 27. To whom in the authority complaints should be made by...

      28. 28. Expenditure incurred by a governing body in the exercise of...

8. Explanatory Note