The Education (Education Standards Grants) (Wales) Regulations 2000

1.  The provision of –

(a) support and training for the implementation and administration of schemes (within the meaning of section 48 of the 1998 Act) for financing maintained schools;

(b) training and professional development in management and leadership skills of teachers and those employed in schools as secretaries, bursars and in other administrative capacities;

(c) training of head teachers as mentors;

(d) support and training for school governors in management and leadership skills;

(e) support, training, books and equipment to assist schools with the implementation, organisation and delivery of the National Curriculum;

(f) support, training, books and equipment with a view to raising standards of attainment of pupils in the subjects of mathematics, Welsh, science, English, technology, physical education, history, geography, art, music, modern foreign languages and religious education and reducing any difference in such standards of attainment between male and female pupils;

(g) support, training, books and equipment with a view to raising standards of attainment of pupils in General Certificate of Education Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Examinations, particularly in science and technology subjects, and reducing any difference in such standards of attainment between male and female pupils;

(h) information and communications technology and equipment, programmes and data, and training for teachers and other school-based staff in the use of such equipment, programmes and data to enhance teaching and learning in all curriculum subjects;

(i) training for school governors and persons employed in schools in the skills required to enable them to set targets, improve school development plans and to set objectives for enhanced school performance in all the subjects of the curriculum, and to address any weaknesses identified in a report of an inspection carried out by a member of the Inspectorate or a registered inspector;

(j) training for persons employed at schools which is aimed at equipping (or better equipping) them to conduct, or to assist in conducting, acts of religious worship at such schools in accordance with section 70 of the 1998 Act; and

(k) support and training for school governors in carrying out reviews of the performance of teachers (including head teachers and deputy head teachers).