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The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1991

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Regulation 13

SCHEDULE 5EXPENDITURE IN RESPECT OF WHICH SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS MAY BE PAID

1.  In this Schedule—

  • “eligible training” means—

    (a)

    the training or further training as teachers of persons other than qualified teachers who are employed by the governing body of a school; and

    (b)

    the further training of any qualified teacher who is employed by the governing body of a school; and

  • “trainee” means a person undergoing eligible training in respect of whom special purpose grant is being paid under these Regulations.

2.  The expenditure in respect of which special purpose grants may be paid is—

(a)expenditure for or in connection with any of the purposes relevant to schools for which education support grants are for the time being payable by virtue of regulations made under section 1 of the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984(1);

(b)expenditure for or in connection with the training of any teacher or other member of the staff of a school including, in particular, expenditure on—

(i)tuition fees, examination fees and residential and other charges payable in respect of eligible training;

(ii)travelling, subsistence and other incidental expenses of a trainee;

(iii)that part of the remuneration of persons whose employment is necessary to free the trainee for training which relates to the period during which their employment is so necessary; and

(iv)the cost of providing (including the provision of premises), planning, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating eligible training:

provided that where such costs are incurred for such purposes and for other purposes special purpose grant shall be payable only in respect of such proportion of those costs as is attributable to the provision, planning, coordinating, monitoring or evaluation of eligible training;

(c)expenditure in respect of expenses which it appears to the Secretary of State the governing bodies of schools cannot reasonably be expected to meet from maintenance grant being expenses incurred or to be incurred for or in connection with—

(i)any structural survey which the Secretary of State has required to be carried out in respect of any building used for the purposes of the school;

(ii)the dismissal (whether by reason of redundancy or otherwise) or for the purpose of securing the resignation of any person who is or was a member of the staff of the school, and the premature retirement of such a person;

(iii)any liability of the school in respect of Value Added Tax;

(iv)insurance of the school premises;

(v)meeting any urgent need of the school occasioned by circumstances outside the control of the governing body; and

(vi)the school’s acquisition of grant-maintained status and the transfer to the governing body of the responsibility for the conduct of the school, where those expenses are incurred within 12 months of the incorporation date; and

(d)expenditure of a class or description relevant to schools and for or in connection with the purpose for which grants are for the time being payable by virtue of regulations made under section 210 of the Act(2).

(1)

1984 c. 11; see the Education Support Grant Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/2518).

(2)

see the Education (Grants) (Travellers and Displaced Persons) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/306, amended by S.I. 1991/131).

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