The Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1999

Redetermination of budget shares

19.—(1) A local education authority shall include factors or criteria in their formula which enable them to redetermine a school’s budget share during the course of a financial year to take account of—

(a) changes during the financial year in the number or estimates of the number of registered pupils at the school by reference to which the budget share was determined;

(b) other changes during the financial year in the data by reference to which the budget share was determined; and

(c) changes during the financial year in the amount of the authority’s individual schools budget.

(2) A local education authority may not redetermine in accordance with paragraph (1) the budget share of a school in receipt of transitional funding under regulation 18 so as to reduce the amount of that school’s budget share.

(3) A local education authority shall set out in their formula the factors or criteria that they will use, in redetermining schools' budget shares in accordance with paragraph (1), to allocate the planned expenditure referred to in paragraph 31 of Schedule 1 or paragraph 34 of Schedule 2.

(4) A local education authority shall include factors or criteria in their formula which enable them to adjust the number of registered pupils used to determine a school’s budget share where it is appropriate to do so in order to take into account, wholly or partly—

(a) any reduction or increase in the school’s budget share under regulation 20 (pupils permanently excluded or admitted following a permanent exclusion); or

(b) any increase in the school’s budget share under this regulation in respect of significant increases in pupil numbers funded by the planned expenditure referred to in paragraph 31 of Schedule 1 or paragraph 34 of Schedule 2.