The Education Standards Fund (England) Regulations 2002

Raising standards of achievement

3.—(a) Raising standards of achievement by pupils, save as mentioned in sub-paragraphs (b) or (e) below.

(b) (i) Measures to provide equality of educational opportunity for all minority ethnic groups, including in particular measures to assist pupils for whom English is an additional language and measures to raise standards of achievement for those minority ethnic groups who are particularly at risk of under-achieving.

(ii) The introduction of 12, 6 and 3 unit courses leading to Advanced certificates of Vocational Education, and the improvement of pupil attainment by the introduction of General Certificates of Secondary Education in vocational subjects.

(iii) Study support centres within or near the premises of football and other sports clubs participating in the Department for Education and Skill’s programme known as Playing for Success, other than in the case of those education authorities piloting innovatory types of sports and education partnership under the programme.

(iv) Training and development of Staff providing nursery education when the education provided is included in an education authority’s early years development plan under section 120 of the 1998 Act.

(v) Improving adult: pupil ratios in reception classes.

(vi) Improving the teaching of literacy and numeracy in primary, middle and special schools.

(vii) Improving results at key stage 3.

(viii) Additional literacy and numeracy classes for pupils who will complete key stage 2 in the summer of 2002.

(c) Measures to support the development and implementation of personal, social and health education.

(d) Education authority music services to schools.

(e) The making of provision to promote and facilitate access to education and more regular school attendance and to promote levels of educational achievement by any person who—

(i) by reason of his way of life (or, in the case of a child, his parent’s way of life) either has no fixed abode or leaves his main abode to live elsewhere for significant periods in each year;

(ii) fell within sub-paragraph (i) within a period of two years immediately preceding the making of the provision referred to in sub-paragraph (a); or

(iii) is for the time being resident in a camp or other accommodation or establishment provided for refugees or for displaced or similar persons.