The Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2003
PART 1INTRODUCTION
1Citation, commencement, application and interpretation
2Revocation of the 2001 Regulations and operation of the 2002 Regulations
PART 2SCHOOLS' BUDGET SHARES : MAIN PROVISIONS
3Determination of budget shares
4Allocation of individual schools budget
5Timing of determination of budget shares
6Consultation
7Formula for determination of budget shares
8Pupil numbers
9Dates for ascertaining pupil numbers
10Pupil numbers: Dual registration
11Places
12Infant Class Funding
13Differential funding
14Additional factors or criteria
15Sixth form funding
16(1) A secondary school’s budget share for the financial year...
17Budget share adjustments in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2002: Pupil numbers
18Budget share adjustments in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2002 : Non-pupil number factors
19New and reorganised schools
20Transitional funding
21Re-determination of budget shares
22Pupils permanently excluded or admitted following a permanent exclusion
23Additional provisions for redeterminations in relation to financial years beginning on or before 1st April 2001: (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
24Additional provisions for redeterminations in relation to the financial years beginning on 1st April 1999, 1st April 2000 or 1st April 2001: Former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools
25Additional provisions for redeterminations in relation to financial years beginning on or before 1st April 1998 : Former grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools
26Percentage of “pupil-led” funding
PART 3CORRECTION OF ERRORS AND ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE
27Correction of errors
28Additional arrangements approved by the Secretary of State
PART 4SCHEMES
29Required content of schemes
30Manner of publication
31Additional occasions when schemes require publication
SCHEDULE 1ADDITIONAL FACTORS OR CRITERIA WHICH MAY BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN A LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY'S FORMULA UNDER REGULATION 10
1Special educational needs of pupils determined in a manner that...
2Pupils for whom English is not their first language.
3Turnover of pupils other than as part of the general...
4Admission arrangements at a school.
5The size, condition and characteristics of a school’s buildings and...
6A school which has a split site: the funding must...
7Such physical facilities, or organisational facilities for the education of...
8Rates payable in respect of the premises of each school...
9Use of energy by schools.
10Rent payable in respect of school premises or payments in...
11Transport to and from activities outside the school premises which...
12Hire of facilities outside school premises (including actual or estimated...
13Insurance: the funding must be equal to the amount which...
14Payments in relation to a private finance transaction as defined...
15Amounts payable to a school which is, as the result...
16Whether a school is to be discontinued in the financial...
17School milk, meals and other refreshment: the authority may not...
18Salaries at a school (including actual or estimated cost): the...
19Safeguarding of salaries in accordance with a School Teachers' Pay...
20Social priority allowances paid in accordance with a School Teachers'...
21The differential in recruitment and retention costs in different areas...
22The need for single payments to be allocated to primary,...
23The need for payments to be allocated to schools, of...
24Schools whose budget shares would otherwise be reduced year-on-year by...
25Contracts to which the governing body of a school are...
26Effect of taxation on schools.
27Housing development or armed forces movements leading to a reduction...
28Such items of expenditure in connection with provision for pupils...
29Incidence of Newly Qualified Teachers.
30Incidence of pupils from ethnic minority groups having below average...
31Incidence of nursery classes and places recognised by the authority...
32Prior attainment of pupils entering a school.
SCHEDULE 2PROTECTED LEVEL OF FUNDING
1(1) This Schedule applies for the purpose of determining the...
2Subject to paragraphs 3, 4 and 5, the protected level...
3(1) In the case of a special school which has...
4The protected level of funding for the financial year beginning...
5Where a school is to close during the financial year,...
SCHEDULE 3CONTENTS OF SCHEMES
1The carrying forward from one financial year to another of...
2The carrying forward from one financial year to another of...
3Amounts which may be charged against schools' budget shares.
4Amounts received by schools which may be retained by their...
5The imposition, by or under the scheme, of conditions which...
6Terms on which services and facilities are provided by the...
7The payment of interest by or to the authority.
8The times at which amounts equal in total to the...
9The virement between budget heads within the delegated budget.
10Circumstances in which the authority may delegate to the governing...
11The use of delegated budgets and of sums made available...
12Borrowing by governing bodies.
13The banking arrangements that may be made by governing bodies....
14A statement as to the personal liability of governors in...
15A statement as to the allowances payable to governors of...
16The keeping of a register of any business interests of...
17The provision of information by and to the governing body....
18The maintenance of inventories of assets.
19Plans of a governing body’s expenditure.
20A statement as to the taxation of sums paid or...
21Insurance.
22The use of delegated budgets by governing bodies so as...
23The repayment to the Secretary of State of loans made...
24The provision of legal advice to the governing body.
25Funding for child protection issues.
26School meals.
27To whom in the authority complaints should be made by...
28Expenditure incurred by a governing body in the exercise of...

2003 No. 453

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2003

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 47, 48(1) and (2) and 138(7) of, and paragraph 1(7) of Schedule 14 to, the School Standards and Framework Act 19981 the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Regulations: