The School and Early Years Finance and Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024

Applications to the schools forum and the Secretary of State

12.—(1) On the application of a local authority, its schools forum may authorise—

(a) the criteria for determining expenditure referred to in paragraphs 4 to 6 of Schedule 2, in accordance with regulation 8(5);

(b) the reduction during the funding period of any amount of expenditure deducted in accordance with regulation 8(5);

(c) the making of deductions from the authority’s schools budget of expenditure in accordance with regulation 8(7);

(d) the redetermination of schools’ budget shares by removal of any of the expenditure referred to in Part 6 of Schedule 2 from schools’ budget shares where it is instead to be treated by the authority as if it were part of central expenditure, in accordance with regulation 11(5);

(e) the redetermination of schools’ budget shares by removal of any of the expenditure referred to in Part 7 of Schedule 2 from schools’ budget shares where it is instead to be treated by the authority as if it were part of central expenditure, in accordance with regulation 11(6);

(f) the use of alternative criteria referred to in regulation 21(13) and (14) for the purpose of calculating funding in respect of sparsity; and

(2) Where—

(a) a schools forum does not authorise any of the matters referred to in paragraph (1); or

(b) a local authority is not required to establish a schools forum for its area,

the authority may apply to the Secretary of State for such authorisation.

(3) On the application of a local authority under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may authorise the matters referred to in paragraph (1).