Information to be provided by a local education authority to the Funding Authority
4.—(1) The following information shall be provided by the local education authority to the Funding Authority before 4th June 1994 and after 1st April and before 1st May in each year thereafter in respect of the area of that local education authority—
(a)the number of registered pupils on the third Thursday in January in the year in which the information is provided in each county school and each voluntary school in the area providing relevant education as such a school of either such kind on that date and the total number of such pupils in relation to all such primary schools and in relation to all such secondary schools;
(b)a forecast of the number of registered pupils firstly, for whom primary education is to be provided and secondly, for whom secondary education is to be provided, in county, voluntary and grant-maintained schools in the area providing relevant education as such schools on 1st January in each school year over—
(i)a four year period in the case of such pupils for whom primary education is to be so provided, and
(ii)a seven year period in the case of such pupils for whom secondary education is to be so provided,
such period commencing at the start of the school year which begins in the year in which the information is provided to the Funding Authority;
(c)a statement, which is to accompany the forecast referred to at sub-paragraph (b) above, explaining the basis upon which the forecast is made and identifying any areas within the area where the rate of growth, or decline, as the case may be, in the number of such pupils is expected to be significantly different from the general rate of growth, or, as the case may be, decline, in the area as a whole; and
(d)where the information is to be provided in 1994, the capacity of each county school and each voluntary school in the area providing relevant education as such a school of either such kind in accordance with the most recent determ ination of the capacity of the school and the total capacity, in accordance with such determinations, of all such primary schools and of all such secondary schools; or
(e)where the information is to be provided in subsequent years, the capacity of each such school on the third Thursday in January in that year and the total capacity, at that date, of all such primary schools and of all such secondary schools.
(2) The following information shall be provided by the local education authority to the Funding Authority after 1st April 1995 and before 1st May 1995 and in every second year thereafter in respect of each county school and each voluntary school in the area providing relevant education as a school of either such kind on the third Thursday in January in the year in which the information is provided—
(a)whether on that date a pupil in a wheelchair can gain access to all relevant areas of the school premises;
(b)where the teaching accommodation on that date is not wholly accessible to such a pupil, the percentage of that accommodation which is so accessible; and
(c)whether on that date washroom facilities are accessible to such a pupil.
(3) For the purposes of preparing the information to be provided pursuant to paragraphs (1)(a), (d) and (e) and (2) above, no account shall be taken of any school of either such kind which has been discontinued before 1st April in the year in which the information is provided.