The Schools Budget Shares (Wales) Regulations 2004

Budget share adjustments

16.—(1) To the extent that a school’s budget share for the preceding financial year was —

(a) determined by reference to an estimate of the number of registered pupils at the school on a particular date or dates; and

(b) differences between the estimated number of pupils on that date or those dates and the actual number of pupils at the school on that date or those dates were not taken into account in a redetermination of the school’s budget share for the preceding financial year,

the local education authority must determine that school’s budget share for the financial year in question so as to take into account those differences.

(2) A local education authority may determine a school’s budget share for the financial year in question so as to take into account any other change during the course of the preceding financial year in the data by reference to which the school’s budget share for that year was determined, if those changes were not taken into account in a redetermination of the school’s budget share for the preceding financial year.

(3) A local education authority may adjust the number of registered pupils used to determine a school’s budget share where it is appropriate to do so in order to take into account, wholly or partly —

(a) any reduction or increase in the school’s budget share for the preceding financial year arising from the permanent exclusion of a pupil from the school or the admission to the school of a pupil permanently excluded from another maintained school; or

(b) any increase in the school’s budget share for the preceding financial year arising from increases in pupil numbers during the course of the preceding financial year.

(4) A local education authority must include factors or criteria in their formula which satisfy the requirements of this regulation.