The Education Standards Fund (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

7.  Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows—

(a) for paragraph 21(b) there shall be substituted—

“(b) The education authorities referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above are—

• Barking and Dagenham

• Barnsley

• Birmingham

• Bolton

• Bradford

• Brent

• Camden

• Cornwall

• Coventry

• Doncaster

• Ealing

• Gateshead

• Greenwich

• Hackney

• Halton

• Hammersmith and Fulham

• Haringey

• Hartlepool

• Islington

• Kingston-upon-Hull

• Knowsley

• Lambeth

• Lancashire

• Leeds

• Leicester

• Lewisham

• Liverpool

• Luton

• Manchester

• Middlesbrough

• Newham

• North East Lincolnshire

• North Tyneside

• Northumberland

• Nottingham City

• Oldham

• Salford

• Sandwell

• Sheffield

• South Tyneside

• Southampton

• Southwark

• St Helens

• Stoke-on-Trent

• Suffolk

• Sunderland

• Tameside

• Tower Hamlets

• Wakefield

• Walsall

• Waltham Forest

• Wandsworth

• Wigan

• Wirral

• Wolverhampton

• Worcestershire.”;

(b) after paragraph 46 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“47.   Support for schools participating in the Department for Education and Employment’s pilot programme for improving results at key stage 3 known as “transforming key stage 3”.

48.   Assisting in providing extra support for the teaching of literacy and numeracy to those key stage 2 pupils who require extra support in order to reach a satisfactory standard at key stage 2.

49.   Support for the development of Excellence in Cities plans—

(a) by assisting with administrative costs incurred by local Excellence in Cities partnerships; and

(b) by assisting with costs incurred by schools which participate in local Excellence in Cities partnerships in developing such plans, including the provision of additional staff to assist for the periods during which teachers are engaged in developing such plans.

50.   Support for planning and establishing a fresh start school.

51.   Measures to improve standards of education of pupils whose parents are asylum seekers.

52.   Support for pupils with behavioural difficulties who are admitted other than at the beginning of a school year to a school included in Excellence in Cities.

53.   Measures to improve standards at key stage 4 through the development and support of collaborative arrangements between secondary schools.”