The Education (Outturn Statements) (Wales) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1717 (W. 117)

EDUCATION, WALES

The Education (Outturn Statements) (Wales) Regulations 2000

Made

22nd June 2000

Coming into force

31st July. 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 52(2) and (3), 138(8) and 142(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1) and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales(2) the National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Education (Outturn Statements) (Wales) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 31st July 2000.

(2) These Regulations apply to Wales only.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations —

• “the 1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;

• “the 1999 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1999”) means the Education (Budget Statements) (Wales) Regulations 1999(3);

• “authority” (“awdurdod”) means a local education authority;

• “budget statement” (“datganiad cyllideb”) means the statement which the authority are required to publish in accordance with section 52(1) of the 1998 Act and the 1999 Regulations;

• “financial year” (“blwyddyn ariannol”) means a period of twelve months ending on 31st March;

• “outturn statement” (“datganiad alldro”) means the statement referred to in section 52(2) of the 1998 Act;

• “the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;

• “school” (“ysgol”) means a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school;

• “school’s budget share” (“cyfran ysgol o'r gyllideb”) means a school’s budget share within the meaning of section 47(1) of the 1998 Act;

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation in these Regulations so numbered and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph in that regulation so numbered.

Revocation and transitional provisions

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Education (School Financial Statements) (Prescribed Particulars etc.) Regulations 1995(4) and the Education (School Financial Statements) (Prescribed Particulars etc.) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 1996(5) are revoked insofar as they apply to outturn statements (as therein defined) of local education authorities in Wales.

(2) Those Regulations shall, however, continue to apply to local education authorities in Wales in relation to any financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1996 and before 1st April 2000.

Form of outturn statements

4.—(1) An outturn statement must be prepared in two parts.

(2) Each part must include a heading at the top of the first page indicating that it is an outturn statement, the name of the authority by whom the statement was prepared and the financial year to which it relates.

Information for outturn statements

5.—(1) The information to be contained in Part I of any outturn statement is –

(a) (i) the amount of expenditure (net and gross) actually incurred by the authority (or treated by the authority as having been incurred), and

(ii) the amount of income allocated by the authority to schools maintained by them,

in the financial year to which the statement relates by reference to categories corresponding to each of the matters required by the 1999 Regulations to be contained in Part I of the authority’s budget statement for that year;

(b) adjacent to the statement of each such amount referred to in sub-paragraph (a) (i) and (ii), the amount of planned financial provision or estimated income, as the case may be, specified in the authority’s budget statement for that matter;

(c) The percentage figures which, in accordance with Note H2(6) to Part I of a budget statement, are required to be inserted in column (h) of that statement; and

(d) in relation to each of the categories referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above, the expenditure actually incurred by the authority in respect of each category, after deducting any income received by the authority in respect of that category and allocated to schools maintained by them (whether or not delegated to individual schools), expressed as a percentage of the authority’s local schools budget.

(2) The information to be contained in Part 2 of an outturn statement, in relation to each school maintained by the authority (identified by its name and official reference number allocated by the National Assembly), is —

(a) the amount of the school’s budget share for the financial year to which the statement relates included in Part 2 of the authority’s budget statement;

(b) particulars of any in-year increases or decreases to the school’s budget share in consequence of any redetermination of its budget share pursuant to regulation 19 of the Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1999(7);

(c) particulars of any amounts allocated to the school not falling within sub-paragraph (b);

(d) the total amount allocated to the school by the authority in that financial year;

(e) the balance brought forward from the previous financial year in respect of any surplus or deficit in the school’s budget share in any previous financial year;

(f) the amount to be carried forward to the following financial year in respect of any surplus or deficit in the school’s budget share for that or any previous financial year;

(g) the total amount of expenditure attributed to the school, derived by adding the difference between the amount referred to in sub-paragraph (e) and the amount referred to in sub-paragraph (f) to the total amount made available to the school by the authority;

(h) any amount treated by the authority as income attributed to the school (and which is not reflected in any of the amounts specified in the outturn statement by virtue of sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) above).

Manner of publication of outturn statements

6.  Every outturn statement shall be published by —

(a) supplying a copy to the National Assembly in accordance with regulation 7; and

(b) making a copy available for reference by parents and other persons at all reasonable times and without charge at each education office of the authority.

7.—(1) An outturn statement shall be supplied to the National Assembly by electronic mail or in the form of machine-readable data on a floppy disk provided for that purpose by the National Assembly.

(2) Any computer language or software used to supply tables must be one which the National Assembly has notified to the authority.

Time for publication of outturn statements

8.  An outturn statement shall be published before 1st October next following the end of the financial year to which it relates.

Signed on behalf of the Assembly under section 66(1)of the Government of Wales Act 1998(8).

D. Elis Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

22nd June 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations specify the information about local education authorities' (LEAs) expenditure on education which must be contained in a statement (referred to in the regulations as an “outturn statement”) which each LEA is required to prepare after the end of each financial year under section 52(2) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (regulation 5).

The Regulations also specify the form which outturn statements must take (regulation 4(1) and (2)) and the manner of, and time for, publication of such statements (regulations 6-8).

The Regulations replace earlier Regulations which are revoked (regulation 3).

(1)

1998 c. 31. For the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations” see section 142(1).

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under section 52 were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1999/451.

(4)

S.I. 1995/208.

(5)

S.I. 1996/381.

(6)

See Schedule 1 to the Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/101.

(7)

S.I. 1999/101.

(8)

1998 c. 38.