The Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2002

Access to education

19.  Expenditure in relation to the following matters—

(a) management of the authority’s capital programme including preparation and review of an asset management plan and negotiation and management of private finance transactions as defined in regulation 16 of the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997(1);

(b) planning and managing the supply of school places, including the authority’s functions—

(i) in relation to school organisation plans pursuant to section 26 of the 1998 Act,

(ii) in relation to the establishment, alteration or discontinuance of schools pursuant to Chapter II of Part II of the 1998 Act;

(c) administration of the system of admissions of pupils to schools (including expenditure incurred in carrying out consultations under section 89(2) of the 1998 Act and in establishing, maintaining and consulting representative bodies for the purposes of admissions) and in relation to appeals, provided that, except where the governing body have agreed with the authority that this proviso should not apply to them or where the authority are satisfied that factors or criteria in their formula already make suitable provision, the authority shall—

(i) allocate to each governing body who are an admission authority, as defined in section 88(1) of the 1998 Act, an amount determined by the authority as that reasonably required by the governing body to meet expenditure incurred in connection with the system of admissions of pupils to the school and any appeals, taking into account any factors or criteria in their formula which relate to such arrangements, and

(ii) allow the governing body to determine how such amount should be spent for that purpose;

(d) the authority’s functions in relation to the exclusion of pupils from schools including advice to the parents of an excluded pupil;

(e) school organisation committees;

(f) the authority’s functions under section 509 of the 1996 Act (home-to-school transport);

(g) the authority’s functions under sections 510, 514 and 518(2) of the 1996 Act (provision and administration of clothing grants, boarding grants and educational maintenance allowances); and

(h) the Education Welfare Service and other expenditure arising from the authority’s functions under Chapter II of Part VI of the 1996 Act (school attendance).

(1)

S.I. 1997/319; amended by S.I. 1998/371 and 1999/1852.

(2)

Section 518 was substituted by section 129 of the 1998 Act. By virtue of regulations 3(1)(a) and 4(g) not all expenditure pursuant to section 518 will form part of the local schools budget.