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SCHEDULE 1Classes or Descriptions of Planned Expenditure Prescribed for the Purposes of the LEA Budget of a Local Authority

Expenditure of a class or description referred to in this Schedule includes expenditure on associated administrative costs and overheads

Access to education

11.  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;

(b)the authority’s functions in relation to the exclusion of pupils from schools or pupil referral units, excluding the making of any provision of education to such pupils, but including advice to the parents of an excluded pupil;

(c)administering the system for admissions of pupils to schools (including admissions appeals and carrying out consultations under section 89(2) of the 1998 Act(1));

(d)expenditure incurred in connection with the authority’s functions under section 85A of the 1998 Act(2) (which provides for the establishment and maintenance of admission forums);

(e)the authority’s functions under the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008(3);

(f)the authority’s functions under sections 510 and 514 of the 1996 Act (provision and administration of clothing grants and boarding grants), and pursuant to regulations made under section 518(1) of the 1996 Act(4).

(1)

Section 89(2) was substituted by section 51 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the Education Act 2002, and amended by section 45 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.

(2)

Section 85A was inserted by section 46 of the Education Act 2002, and amended by section 41 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.

(4)

Section 518 was substituted by section 129 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.