The School Governance (Federations) (England) Regulations 2012

2.  Section 50 (effect of financial delegation) is modified as follows—

(a) in subsection (1), for “maintained school“ substitute “federated school”;

(b) after subsection (1), insert—

“(1A) Where a federation has a delegated budget in respect of the whole or part of a funding period, the local authority shall secure that in respect of that period there is available to be spent by the governing body—

(a) where the federation has a delegated budget in respect of the whole of that period, a sum equal to the federation’s budget share for the period, or

(b) where the federation has a delegated budget in respect of only part of that period, a sum equal to that portion of the federation’s budget share for the period which has not been spent.”;

(c) in subsection (2), after “made available” insert “under subsection (1) or (1A)” and for “any such sum” substitute “any sum mentioned in either of those subsections”;

(d) in subsection (3), for “the governing body may spend any such amounts” substitute “the governing body of a federation may spend any amounts made available under subsection (1) or (1A), and any amounts previously made available to the governing bodies of the federated schools before federation,”;

(e) in subsection (3), for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) for any purposes of any of the federated schools;

(aa) for any purposes of the federation; or”;

(f) in subsection (6), after “governing body” insert “of a federation” and after “head teacher” insert “of the federation or to the head teacher of each school within the federation”; and

(g) in subsection (7), for “school” substitute “federation”.