The School Governance (Federations) (England) Regulations 2012

1.  Section 49 (maintained schools to have delegated budgets) is modified as follows—

(a) in subsection (1), for “Every maintained school” substitute “Subject to subsection (2B), every federated school”;

(b) in subsection (2), for “A new school” substitute “Subject to subsection (2B), a new school that is a federated school”;

(c) after subsection (2A), insert—

“(2B) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a federated school if the local authority by which the school is maintained treat the federation which includes the school as a single school in accordance with regulations.

In such a case, the federation shall have a delegated budget.”;

(d) in subsection (4)(a), after “school” insert “or federation”;

(e) in subsections (4) and (5), for “maintained school” substitute “federation”;

(f) in subsection (5)(a), after “head teacher” insert “of the federation or any school within the federation”; and

(g) for subsection (7), substitute—

“(7) In this Part—

(a) references to a federation or federated school having a delegated budget are references to the governing body of the federation being entitled to manage the federation’s budget share or the federated school’s budget share, as the case may be; and

(b) where a federation or federated school has a delegated budget the governing body of the federation are accordingly said to have a right to a delegated budget in respect of the federation or the federated school, as the case may be.”.