The Education Development Plans (England) Regulations 1999

PART III MATERIAL TO BE CONTAINED IN ANNEXES TO THE STATEMENT OF PROPOSALS

General

12.  The annexes to the statement of proposals contained in the first plan must contain the material specified in regulations 13 to 19.

Targets

13.  The material referred to in regulation 12 includes a table showing–

(a) the targets for the school year beginning in 1999 which the governing body of each school maintained by the authority have set by virtue of regulation 3 or 4 (or, as the case may be, both) of the 1998 Regulations, and

(b) the local education authority’s target for the number of persons who are children in the final year of compulsory education or young persons over compulsory school age but under the age of 18 leaving public care in their area, in each of the school years beginning in 1999, 2000 and 2001 respectively, per 100 such persons, who are to have achieved grade A* to G in one or more subjects in GCSE examinations or a vocational qualification.

(2) In this regulation, “children leaving public care” means–

(a) any children for whom the local education authority provided, in accordance with section 20 of the Children Act 1989(1), and for whom they no longer so provide, and

(b) any children who were the subject of a care order or a supervision order within the meaning of section 31 of the Children Act 1989 and who are no longer so subject

and a child shall be regarded as leaving public care in the school year in which the authority first cease so to provide or in which he first ceases to be so subject, as the case may be.

Local education authority context and audit

14.  The material referred to in regulation 12 includes a statement by the local education authority giving a description of–

(a) the key characteristics of the authority which the authority consider relevant to the improvement of, and the raising of standards in, schools in its area, and

(b) the processes by which the authority have, prior to the date they submit the first plan to the Secretary of State in accordance with section 7(1) of the 1998 Act, monitored and evaluated their own performance and the performance of schools maintained by the authority, and the outcomes of that monitoring and evaluation.

Description of the local education authority’s proposed activities

15.  The material referred to in regulation 12 includes a description of each of the activities listed in the statement of proposals in accordance with regulation 11(3)(a) and the resources to be allocated to each such activity.

Pupils with special educational needs

16.  The material referred to in regulation 12 includes a statement summarising the local education authority’s policy on the provision of education to pupils with special educational needs, and how the authority propose that such pupils be educated alongside pupils who do not have special educational needs.

Resources

17.  The material referred to in regulation 12 includes the following tables–

(a) a table showing the local education authority’s planned expenditure, to be deducted from their local schools budget, in the financial year beginning in 1999 in respect of each of the priorities set out in the statement of proposals in accordance with regulation 11(1), broken down by reference to expenditure in the following categories–

(i) the expenditure referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations (expenditure supported by specific grants),

(ii) the expenditure referred to in paragraphs 3 to 15 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations (special educational provision),

(iii) the expenditure referred to in paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations (school improvement),

(iv) the expenditure referred to in paragraphs 17 to 24 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations (access to education), and

(v) the expenditure referred to in paragraphs 25 to 41 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations (strategic management);

(b) a table showing the amounts of expenditure in the financial year beginning in 1999, in respect of each of the priorities set out in the statement of proposals in accordance with regulation 11(1), which the authority anticipate will be met from the budget shares allocated under section 47 of the 1998 Act to schools maintained by the authority, and

(c) a table showing the staff time which the authority anticipate is to be employed in the financial year beginning in 1999 on the priorities and activities set out in the statement of proposals in accordance with regulation 11, broken down by reference to the types of staff concerned and to staff funded from expenditure in the following categories–

(i) the expenditure referred to in regulation 17(a)(iii) (school improvement),

(ii) the expenditure referred to in regulation 17(a)(i), (ii), (iv) and (v), and

(iii) expenditure which the authority anticipate will be met from the budget shares allocated under section 47 of the 1998 Act to schools maintained by the authority.

Monitoring and evaluating the education development plan

18.  The material referred to in regulation 12 includes an explanation of the way in which the local education authority propose to monitor and evaluate–

(a) their activities and achievements in relation to the targets referred to in regulations 6 to 9 and the priorities and activities referred to in regulation 11, including the way in which the authority propose to monitor and evaluate the achievements of schools maintained by the authority, and pupil referral units and maintained nursery schools in their area, and

(b) the authority’s use of resources in support of the first plan.

Consultation by the local education authority

19.  The material referred to in regulation 12 includes a description of the consultation undertaken by the local education authority in preparing the first plan including, in particular, the following information–

(a) the number and types of person consulted,

(b) a summary of the consultation responses,

(c) the ways, if any, in which those responses have been reflected in the first plan, and

(d) any significant areas in which those consulted disagreed with the first plan and the consultees concerned.

(1)

1989 c. 41.