Part I Learning and Skills Council for England

Main powers

7 Funding of school sixth-forms.

1

The Council may make a grant to a local education authority—

a

on the condition that the grant be applied as part of the authority’s F1schools budget for a F2funding period, and

b

with a view to the grant being used for the purposes of, or for purposes connected with, the provision by schools of education suitable to the requirements of persons above compulsory school age.

2

A grant made under this section may be made on conditions in addition to the condition mentioned in subsection (1)(a) (including conditions of a kind which could be imposed under section 6).

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In this section—

“ funding period ” means a financial year or, if some other period is prescribed in relation to England under subsection (1B) of section 45 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (maintained schools to have budget shares), that other period;

“ schools budget ” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of that Act (framework for maintained schools).