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

Determination of Direct AMG for a school which becomes grant-maintained in the financial year in question pursuant to proposals published under section 212 of the 1996 Act

19.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of a school which becomes a grant-maintained school on or after 1st April in the financial year in question pursuant to proposals published under section 212 of the 1996 Act(1).

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), in any case to which this regulation applies, the funding authority shall determine an amount (Direct AMG) which appears to them to be equal or approximate to an amount which the local education authority could have determined, by the application (subject to the following provisions of this regulation) of the allocation formula in their scheme in relation to a comparable maintained school covered by the scheme, as such a school’s budget share for the complete financial year in question.

(3) Where the allocation formula determines a part of a school’s budget share by reference to the number of registered pupils at the school on a date or dates which are before the date on which the school became a grant-maintained school, the funding authority may in determining the number of registered pupils at the school for the purposes of paragraph (2) substitute for that date or dates a date or dates in the first school term during which the school was a grant-maintained school.

(4) Paragraphs (4), (5), (9), (11), (12) and (13) of regulation 6 (allocation formula) shall also apply to this regulation.

(1)

These Regulations do not apply to those grant-maintained schools established pursuant to proposals under section 212 of the 1996 Act to which the Education (New Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/956) apply, see regulation 1(3) and (4) of these Regulations.