The Education Development Plans (England) Regulations 2001

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

General

13.  The annexes to the statement of proposals contained in the second plan must contain the material specified in regulations 14 to 18.

Targets

14.  The material referred to in regulation 13 includes a table showing—

(a) the targets for the school year beginning in 2002 which the governing body of each maintained school in the authority’s area have set by virtue of regulation 3, 3A, 4 or 4A (or, as the case may be, several or all) of the 1998 Regulations;

(b) the targets for the school year beginning in 2002 which the governing body of any maintained school in the authority’s area have set by virtue of regulation 3 of the Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) Regulations 1999(1);

(c) the targets for the percentage of children leaving public care by the end of each of the school years beginning in 2002 and 2003 respectively and who will have attained the age of at least 16, to achieve grades A* to C in five or more subjects in GCSE examinations in those school years; and

(d) the targets for the percentage of children leaving public care by the end of each of the school years beginning in 2002 and 2003 respectively and who will have attained the age of at least 16, to achieve grades A* to G in one or more subjects in GCSE examinations in those school years.

Description of the local education authority’s proposed activities

15.  The material referred to in regulation 13 includes a breakdown and detailed description for the financial year beginning in 2002 of each of the activities indicated in broad terms in the statement of proposals in accordance with regulation 12(3).

Resources

16.  The material referred to in regulation 13 includes a table showing the local education authority’s planned expenditure in the financial year beginning in 2002 in respect of each of the priorities set out in the statement of proposals in accordance with regulation 12(1), comprising expenditure to be deducted from their local schools budget in accordance with regulations under section 46(2) of the 1998 Act (but excluding expenditure to be met from funding devolved to schools), showing separately expenditure expected to be offset by specific grants and contributions required from the local education authority as a condition of the grants.

Monitoring and evaluating the education development plan

17.  The material referred to in regulation 13 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 7 to 10 and the priorities and activities referred to in regulation 12, including the way in which the authority propose to monitor and evaluate the achievements of schools maintained by the authority; and

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

Consultation by the local education authority

18.  The material referred to in regulation 13 includes a description of the consultation undertaken by the local education authority in preparing the second plan including, in particular, the following information—

(a) the number and types of persons consulted,

(b) a summary of the consultation responses,

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

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

(1)

S.I. 1999/397 amended by S.I. 2001/3785.