The Education (Grants for Education Support and Training) (England) Regulations 1996

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984;

“approved expenditure” means any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3 below;

“basic curriculum” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(1) of the Education Reform Act 1988;(1)

“classroom assistant” means an employee of an education authority or of the governing body of a school who is normally present in a classroom with a qualified teacher and who assists the teacher in the delivery of the curriculum in the school;

“determine” means determine by notice in writing;

“education authority” means a local education authority;

“financial year” means a period of twelve months ending with 31st March;

“grant” means a grant in pursuance of these Regulations;

“key stage 2” means the second key stage referred to in section 3(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988;

“language college” means a maintained school specialising in modern foreign languages;

“leisure time facilities” means facilities of a kind which education authorities are under the duty imposed by sections 41(3)(b) and 53(1) of the Education Act 1944(2) to secure are provided within their areas;

“maintained school” means a school maintained by an education authority;

“non-maintained special school” means a special school which is neither a maintained school nor a grant-maintained special school (within the meaning of section 182(3) or 187(3)(b) of the Education Act 1993);

“NC tasks” has the meaning assigned to that expression in the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 2) (England) Order 1995(3) and the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 3) (England) Order 1995;(4)

“prescribed expenditure” means expenditure by an education authority for or in connection with any of the purposes specified in the Schedule hereto;

“primary school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 114 of the Education Act 1944;(5)

“pupil” has the meaning assigned to it by section 14(6) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;

“qualified teacher” means a person who, by virtue of the regulations(6) relating to the employment of teachers from time to time in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988(7), is qualified to be employed as a teacher at a school of the kind described in subsection (12) of that section;

“school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 14(5) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;(8)

“special school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 182(1) of the Education Act 1993;

“special support assistant” means a person who is normally present in a classroom with a qualified teacher and who assists the teacher in providing special education to children with special educational needs;

“special educational needs” has the meaning assigned to it by section 156(1) of the Education Act 1993;

“specialist teacher assistant” means an employee of an education authority or of the governing body of a maintained school or non-maintained special school who is normally present in a classroom with a qualified teacher and who assists the teacher in the delivery of the curriculum in the school;

“standard task assessment” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 5 of the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for the Core Subjects) (Key Stage 1) Order 1995(9) and “further assessment” means the assessment described in regulation 7 of that Order;

“technology college” means a maintained school specialising in mathematics, science and technology; and

“youth and community worker” means a person employed in connection with leisure time facilities, other than a person employed in a solely administrative, secretarial, clerical or manual capacity.

(1)

1988 c. 40; section 2(1) was amended by section 241(1) of the Education Act 1993.

(2)

1944 c. 31; section 41 was substituted by section 11 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13) and section 53(1) was amended by Part I of Schedule 1 to the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (c. 40), Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), and paragraph 54 of Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988.

(3)

S.I. 1995/2072.

(4)

S.I. 1995/2073.

(5)

The definition of “primary school” in section 114 was inserted by paragraph 13(2)(c) of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, and was amended by section 304(2) of the Education Act 1993.

(6)

The regulations currently in force are the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/543), amended by S.I. 1994/222, section 14(2) of the Education Act 1994 (c. 30) and S.I. 1995/602.

(7)

Section 218 was amended by paragraph 49 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, sections 290 and 291 of, and paragraph 136 of Schedule 19 to, the Education Act 1993, and by section 14(1) and (3) of, and paragraph 8(4) of Schedule 2 to, the Educational Act 1994.

(8)

Section 14(5) was amended by section 304(1) of the Education Act 1993.

(9)

S.I. 1995/2071.