Education Act 1996

Introductory

101 Local education authority schemes for financing schools

(1) In this Part “scheme” means a scheme made by a local education authority under section 103 (including one that is to be treated as so made by virtue of section 104(6)) as from time to time revised under sections 111 to 114.

(2) In this Part “the local education authority”, in relation to a scheme, means the local education authority who made (or are to be treated as having made) the scheme.

(3) For the purposes of this Part—

(a) a local education authority’s “general schools budget” for a financial year is the amount appropriated by the authority for meeting expenditure in the year in respect of all schools required to be covered in the year by any scheme made by the authority (other than non-qualifying expenditure);

(b) a local education authority’s “aggregated budget” for a financial year under a scheme is the part (determined as mentioned in section 105) of the authority’s general schools budget for the year which is available for allocation to individual schools under the scheme; and

(c) a school’s “budget share” for a financial year under a scheme is the share of the local education authority’s aggregated budget for the year which is to be appropriated for the school under the scheme.

(4) In subsection (3)(a) “non-qualifying expenditure” means expenditure in respect of the provision of—

(a) part-time education suitable to the requirements of persons of any age over compulsory school age, or

(b) full-time education suitable to the requirements of persons who have attained the age of 19.

(5) In relation to any scheme any reference in subsection (3) to an amount is a reference to an amount determined (and from time to time revised) in accordance with the scheme.

(6) In this Part references to a school’s budget share for a financial year include references to that share as from time to time revised in accordance with the scheme under which it is determined.

102 Schools required to be covered by a scheme

For the purposes of this Part a school is required to be covered by a scheme in any financial year if either—

(a) immediately before the beginning of that year it is maintained by the local education authority as a county or voluntary school, or

(b) at any time during that year it becomes so maintained (whether by virtue of being newly established as a county or voluntary school or by virtue of becoming a county or voluntary school where it was not, immediately before it became so, a school of either description).