The Education Support Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2943

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education Support Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

23rd December 1991

Coming into force

24th December 1991

In exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 1 and 3(4) of the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984(1), and after consulting, in accordance with section 3(5) of that Act, such bodies representing local education authorities as appear to them to be appropriate, the Secretary of State for Education and Science, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, hereby make the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before Parliament pursuant to section 3(2) of that Act and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:–

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education Support Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Amendments to the Education Support Grants Regulations 1990

2.  The Education Support Grants Regulations 1990(2) shall be amended as follows–

(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 5 (rate of grant) the words “2 or” shall be deleted.

(2) In regulation 6(5)(b) (conditions for payment of grant) for the words “an unqualified certificate” there shall be substituted the words “a certificate”.

(3) In the Schedule (purposes for or in connection with which grants are payable)–

(a) items 2, 4(a) and (d), 6 and 18 shall be deleted; and

(b) there shall be inserted the following items–

“29.   Facilitating access to courses of higher education by persons of the age of 19 years and above living in urban areas of special social need.

30   .The provision of support for initiatives to raise standards in schools in urban areas of special social need.

31   .Promoting co-operation in the education of pupils who are both blind and deaf between education authorities, schools and other interested bodies.

32   Helping schools to offer courses leading to vocational qualifications to pupils of the age of 16 years and above.”.

Transitional provisions

3.  Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent the Secretary of State making payments of grant in respect of approved expenditure incurred on or before 31st March 1992 for the purposes described in items 2, 4(a) or (d), 6 or 18 of the Schedule to the Education Support Grants Regulations 1990 which are revoked by this Order, and grant in respect of approved expenditure incurred in respect of item 2 in the said Schedule shall continue to be payable at the rate of 50 per cent. of such expenditure.

Kenneth Clarke

Secretary of State for Educationand Science

23rd December 1991

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

23rd December 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education Support Grants Regulations 1990 (“the 1990 Regulations”).

Four new items, being purposes for or in connection with which grants are payable are added to the Schedule: to facilitate access to courses of higher education by persons of the age of 19 years and above living in urban areas of special social need; to provide support for initiatives to raise standards in schools in urban areas of special social need; to promote co-operation in the education of pupils who are both blind and deaf between education authorities, schools and other interested bodies; and to help schools to offer courses leading to vocational qualifications to pupils of the age of 16 years and above.

Items 2 (teaching of mathematics in schools); 4(a) (projects to improve the quality or the range of the curriculum provided in primary schools in rural areas); 4(d) (projects to broaden the range of languages learnt by pupils in secondary schools as their first foreign language); 6 (developing the knowledge and appreciation, among pupils in schools in Wales, of the heritage, culture and language of Wales) and 18 (the training of teachers in schools to improve pupils' use and understanding of the English language) are deleted from the Schedule.

Regulation 5(2) of the 1990 Regulations is amended to reflect the deletion of item 2 from the Schedule. Regulation 6(5)(b) of the 1990 Regulations is amended to remove the requirement that an unqualified auditor’s certificate be obtained.

Regulation 3 of these Regulations permits grant to be paid in respect of the items deleted from the Schedule to the 1990 Regulations on expenditure incurred on or before 31st March 1992.

(1)

1984 c. 11.

(2)

S.I. 1990/2518.