The Education (Financial Delegation to Schools) (Mandatory Exceptions) Regulations 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply only to local education authorities in England, replace the provisions of the Education (Financial Delegation to Schools) (Mandatory Exceptions) Regulations 1994 as they apply to such local education authorities and those Regulations are to that extent revoked.

These Regulations prescribe expenditure to be left out of account (in addition to that expenditure already set out in section 38(4)(a) and (b) of the Education Reform Act 1988) in determining the part of the general schools budget of any local education authority in England for any financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1995 which is available for allocation to individual schools under a scheme under section 33 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (known as the authority’s aggregated budget for the year). The main changes made by the Regulations are the prescription of expenditure on compensation, redundancy and other payments, expenditure on services provided by education welfare officers and education social workers, expenditure on services provided by educational psychologists and expenditure in connection with a local education authority’s duties to make assessments of, and to make, maintain and review statements for, children with special educational needs. Except in the first case such expenditure includes expenditure on associated administrative expenses even if such expenditure would not otherwise fall within the description of prescribed expenditure in the relevant sub-paragraph.

The operation of the Education (Financial Delegation to Schools) (Mandatory Exceptions) Regulations 1994 in relation to local education authorities in Wales is not affected by these Regulations.