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

The London fringe

20.—(1) In determining budget shares for primary and secondary schools (other than special schools, pupil referral units, and nursery schools), a fringe authority must ascertain and take into account the following factor.

(2) Differential costs at schools in the fringe districts of Buckinghamshire(1), Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and West Sussex.

(3) To take account of the differential costs mentioned in paragraph (2) a fringe authority must set the factor referred to in paragraph (1)—

(a) between 1.0173 and 1.0345 in relation to schools in the fringe districts of Essex;

(b) between 1.0168 and 1.030, in relation to schools in the fringe districts of Hertfordshire; and

(c) in relation to schools in the fringe districts of Buckinghamshire, Kent and West Sussex, as a factor which represents the ratio between the two ACAs applying to each of those authorities in respect of the fringe districts and the non-fringe districts within their area.

(1)

The Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/957) created a single tier authority for Buckinghamshire, coterminous with the county of Buckinghamshire, and replaced the former district councils within the county with effect from 1st April 2020, but the former districts (described in article 2 (interpretation) of that Order) remain relevant for the purposes of regulation 20.