PART 3Determination of Budget Shares etc
CHAPTER 1Requirements, and Factors and Criteria Taken into Account
Federated schools22
1
Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), where two or more maintained schools are federated under section 24 of the 2002 Act, the local authority must determine a budget share for each school in accordance with Part 3 of these Regulations.
2
After carrying out the determination under paragraph (1) the local authority may treat the schools as a single school for the purposes of these Regulations and, accordingly, allocate a single budget share to the governing body of the federation.
3
Where the local authority decides to allocate a single budget share to the governing body of a federation under paragraph (2), it must determine it by combining the budget shares of all the schools that form part of that federation.
4
Where one or more schools are to leave a federation which has been allocated a single budget share under paragraph (2), the local authority must—
a
determine the budget share for each of the leaving schools, and
b
redetermine the budget share for the federation,
in accordance with Part 3 of these Regulations.