The School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2013

PART 1 Central Services

1.  Expenditure on the operation of the system of admissions of pupils to schools (including expenditure incurred in carrying out consultations under section 88C(2) of the 1998 Act(1)) and in relation to appeals.

2.  Expenditure in connection with the authority’s functions under section 47A of the 1998 Act (establishment and maintenance of, and consultation with, schools forums).

3.  CERA incurred for purposes not falling within any other paragraph of this Schedule or Schedule 1.

4.  Expenditure in respect of—

(a) prudential borrowing;

(b) termination of employment costs, where the schools forum have approved the charging of these costs to the schools budget for the funding period in which they were incurred and the revenue savings achieved by the termination of employment to which they relate are equal to or greater than the costs incurred;

(c) services (often known as combined budgets) funded partly from central expenditure and partly from other budgets of the local authority or contributions from other bodies, where the expenditure relates to classes or descriptions of expenditure falling outside those set out in this Schedule;

(d) special educational needs transport costs; and

(e) purposes not falling within any other paragraph of this Schedule, provided that the expenditure does not amount in total to more than 0.1% of the authority’s schools budget;

which has been approved by the schools forum or the Secretary of State before 1st April 2013.

5.  Any deductions under any of paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4(a), 4(b), 4(c), 4(d) and 4(e) must not exceed the amount deducted under each of the corresponding paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2012 Regulations for the previous funding period.

(1)

Section 88C(2) was amended by section 51 of, and Schedule 4 to, the 2002 Act and sections 45 and 56 of the 2006 Act.