The Schools Budget Shares (Wales) Regulations 2004

Redetermination of budget shares

18.—(1) A local education authority must include factors or criteria in their formula which enable them to redetermine a school’s budget share during the course of a financial year if they so wish to take account (wholly or partly) of —

(a) changes during that financial year in the number or estimates of the number of registered pupils (including the substitution of actual numbers for estimates) at the school by reference to which the budget share was determined in accordance with regulation 8(1) or (3) other than in cases where pupil numbers were weighted according to special educational needs;

(b) other changes during that financial year in the data by reference to which the budget share was determined; and

(c) changes during that financial year in the amount of the authority’s individual schools budget.

(2) A local education authority must set out in their formula the factors or criteria that they will use in redetermining schools' budget shares in accordance with paragraph (1), to allocate the planned expenditure referred to in paragraph 30 of Schedule 2 to the 2003 Regulations(1).

(3) A local education authority must include factors or criteria in their formula which enable them to adjust the number of registered pupils used to determine or redetermine 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 in accordance with regulation 19 (Pupils excluded or admitted following an exclusion); or

(b) any increase in the school’s budget share under this regulation in respect of significant increases in pupil numbers funded by the planned expenditure referred to in paragraph 30 of Schedule 2 to the 2003 Regulations.

(4) Where a local education authority propose to retain part of their individual schools budget pursuant to regulation 5(2) for the purpose of redeterminations or the correction of errors they must include factors or criteria in their formula which require them to redetermine schools' budget shares before the end of the financial year in question so as to distribute to schools the unallocated balance of any such retained amount on the basis of pupil numbers in accordance with regulation 8(1) or (6).

(1)

S.I.2003/3118(W.296).