The Federation of Maintained Schools and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2010

PART 11 INFORMATION AND FUNDING

Information for the governing body of a federation

73.—(1) Immediately before the federation date, the governing body of a school which is to become a federated school must prepare, for the purpose of assisting the governing body of the federation, a written report on the action which they have taken in the discharge of their functions relating to the school.

(2) All minutes and papers of a governing body of a school which is to become a federated school on the federation date, including the report prepared under paragraph (1), is to be made available to the governing body of the federation.

Financing of federations

74.  Except as provided by regulation 75, Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the 1998 Act (financing of maintained schools) applies to federated schools and their governing bodies as it applies to other maintained schools and their governing bodies.

75.—(1) In its application to a federated school in Wales, other than one for which a temporary governing body is established pursuant to regulation 77 or 82, section 50(1) of the 1998 Act (effect of financial delegation) is to have effect subject to the following modifications.

(2) In subsection (1), for “maintained” substitute “federated”.

(3) In subsection (2) for “any amounts are made available by the authority to the governing body” substitute “any amounts in respect of a federated school are made available by the local authority to the governing body of a federation”.

(4) In subsection (3)—

(a) for “the governing body may spend any such amounts” substitute “the governing body of a federation may spend any amounts made available under subsection (2), or previously made available to the governing bodies of the federated schools before federation”; and

(b) for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) for any purposes of the federated school to which the amounts relate;

(ab) for any purposes of any other federated school within the federation;

(ac) for any purposes of the federation; or”.

(5) In subsection (4) for “In subsection (3) “purposes of the school” does not include” substitute “In subsection (3)(a), (ab) and (ac) any reference to the purposes of a federated school or a federation does not include”.

(6) In subsection (6), for “the head teacher” substitute “the head teacher of the federation or to the head teachers of federated schools”.

(7) In subsection (7), for “school” substitute “federation”.

(1)

Subsection (1) was amended by section 40 of, and Schedule 3 to, the 2002 Act. Subsection (4)(za) was inserted by section 40 of, and Schedule 3 to, the 2002 Act. Subsection (5) was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 21 to the 2002 Act. Subsection (1) was further amended by section 117 of, and Schedule 18 to, the Education Act 2005 (c. 18).