The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1993

Regulation 13(3)

SCHEDULE 2 RELEVANT EXPENDITURE

1.  Subject to paragraph 2, the following heads or items of expenditure are to be included for the purposes of determining in accordance with regulation 13(2) the amount of relevant expenditure incurred by the former maintaining authority in the preceding financial year:

(a) salaries of, and other costs attributable to, staff employed to work wholly or partly at the school other than staff employed in the provision of school meals;

(b) expenditure on books, stationery and other educational equipment for use at the school;

(c) expenditure on telephones and postage for the purposes of the school;

(d) examination fees incurred in relation to registered pupils at the school;

(e) expenditure relating to the school premises, including in particular—

(i) heating and lighting;

(ii) caretaking and cleaning;

(iii) rent, non-domestic rates, water rates and charges for the supply of water or the provision of sewerage services;

(iv) insurance; and

(v) repairs and maintenance; and

(f) any other expenditure treated by the authority as forming part of the direct costs of the school.

2.  The heads or items of expenditure referred to in paragraph 1 are not to be included for the purposes of determining the amount of relevant expenditure to the extent that they fall within any of the following descriptions of expenditure, namely—

(a) expenditure treated by the former maintaining authority as expenditure of a capital nature;

(b) expenditure in respect of the repayment of the principal of, the payment of interest on and the discharge of any financial obligation in connection with, any loan raised to meet expenditure of a capital nature;

(c) expenditure which is offset by income received as central government grant in support of specific expenditure;

(d) expenditure required to meet the liabilities of the former maintaining authority in respect of compensation for premature retirement of—

(i) persons formerly employed by them to work at a school maintained by them; or

(ii) persons formerly employed by the governing body of a school maintained by them,

where the decision to credit a person with a period of service for the purposes of payment of compensation for premature retirement was made before 1 April in the preceding financial year; and

(e) expenditure on the following items and on any necessary administrative costs associated therewith—

(i) transport of pupils between home and school;

(ii) the provision of clothing for pupils;

(iii) the granting of scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries or other allowances to pupils over compulsory school age, to enable pupils to take advantage of educational facilities without hardship to themselves or their parents;

(iv) education welfare officers and educational psychologists where the expenditure is incurred in connection with the performance of a duty or the exercise of a power by the former maintaining authority which is to be performed or exercised by them both in relation to pupils at schools maintained by them and in relation to pupils at grant-maintained schools; and

(v) additional support provided to schools specifically for pupils with statements of special educational needs in accordance with those statements.