The Education (Bursaries for School Teacher Training Pilot Scheme) (England) Regulations 2000

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Bursaries for School Teacher Training Pilot Scheme) (England) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st September 2000.

(2) These Regulations shall apply in relation to England.

General interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“appropriate period” means the period of the pilot scheme for approved training during which a teacher is eligible in accordance with regulation 6 for bursaries and grant;

“approved” means approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations;

“authority” means a local education authority;

“Excellence in Cities” means the programme of action by the Department for Education and Employment to raise education standards in selected urban areas;

“maintained school” means a school maintained by an authority;

“non-maintained special school” means a special school not maintained by an authority;

“supply teacher” means a teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of supervising or teaching pupils whose regular teacher is not available to teach them; and

“unattached teacher” means a teacher employed in the provision of primary or secondary education who is not attached to a particular school or who is employed otherwise than in a school.

(2) In these regulations, a reference to a teacher employed in a school includes a teacher who is engaged to provide his services as a teacher in a school otherwise than under a contract of employment.

Teachers in respect of whom training bursaries and grant are payable

3.—(1) In these Regulations “teacher” means a qualified teacher other than a head teacher who is or, as mentioned in paragraph (2), has been—

(a) employed as a teacher in a maintained school, a non-maintained special school, a city technology college, a city college for the technology of the arts or a city academy which is included in the pilot scheme, or

(b) employed as an unattached teacher by an authority which is included in the pilot scheme.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a supply teacher or an unattached teacher unless he is or has been employed as a teacher—

(a) in one or more schools included in the pilot scheme, or

(b) by an authority included in the pilot scheme,

for not less than 20 days falling within the appropriate period.

Extent of the pilot scheme

4.  For the purposes of regulation 3 the following are included in the pilot scheme—

(a) authorities referred to in Part I of the Schedule;

(b) maintained schools, non-maintained special schools, city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts and city academies situated in the areas of those authorities;

(c) maintained schools participating in the education action zones referred to in Part II of the Schedule and city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts and city academies situated in the area served by those schools; and

(d) maintained schools, city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts and city academies participating in the Excellence in Cities projects referred to in Part II of the Schedule.

Provision of bursaries and grant

5.  The Secretary of State may pay—

(a) a bursary to a teacher to facilitate and encourage his training, and

(b) a grant to a person other than an authority to facilitate and encourage the training of a teacher,

in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Eligibility for bursaries and grant in the first or second period of the pilot scheme

6.—(1) A teacher who qualified as a teacher in an even year up to and including 1998 is eligible for bursaries and grant in respect of approved training in which he begins to participate, or in which he commits himself to participate, in the period starting on 1st September 2000 and ending on 31st March 2001.

(2) A teacher who qualified as a teacher in an odd year up to and including 1999 is eligible for bursaries and grant in respect of approved training in which he begins to participate, or in which he commits himself to participate, in the period starting on 1st April 2001 and ending on 31st March 2002.

Training purposes in respect of which bursaries and grant are payable

7.—(1) A bursary or grant may only be paid in respect of—

(a) expenditure on approved training for a teacher;

(b) a teacher’s reasonable travel and subsistence costs associated with his participation in approved training, and the costs of providing for any child of whom he is the parent to be looked after during such training outside his ordinary working hours; and

(c) the costs incurred by the governing body of a school included in the pilot scheme of employing another teacher to carry out the teaching duties of a teacher employed in the school while he is participating in approved training.

(2) A person to whom other public funding is provided for the purpose of meeting or assisting with any expenditure or costs for which a bursary or grant would otherwise be payable under these Regulations may not be paid a bursary or grant in respect of the same expenditure or costs.

Amount of bursaries and grant

8.—(1) The total amount of bursaries and grant which may be paid in respect of a teacher employed to work in one or more schools—

(a) participating in an Excellence in Cities project, or

(b) participating in, or situated in the area served by the schools participating in, an Education Action Zone,

referred to in Part II of the Schedule shall not exceed £700.

(2) The total amount of bursaries and grant which may be paid in respect of any other teacher—

(a) employed to work in one or more schools referred to in regulation 4(b), or

(b) employed by an authority referred to in regulation 4(a),

shall not exceed £500.

Payment

9.—(1) A bursary or a grant may be paid in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred or commitments entered into during the appropriate period.

(2) A bursary or a grant may be paid in such manner and at such times as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

Records, accounts and information

10.—(1) A teacher to whom a bursary is paid shall keep for a period of 3 years records of the expenditure to which it relates.

(2) A person to whom a grant is paid shall keep for a period of 3 years records and accounts to show the receipt and expenditure of grant.

(3) A teacher or other person to whom a bursary or grant is paid shall, if so requested by the Secretary of State, furnish him with such further information as may be requested to enable him to verify that any bursary or grant paid has been properly paid under these Regulations.

Repayment

11.  Where in the opinion of the Secretary of State any information or assumption on the basis of which a bursary or grant has been paid is incorrect, the teacher or other person to whom the bursary or grant was paid shall at the request of the Secretary of State repay such sum not exceeding the total bursary or grant as the Secretary of State may request.

Jacqui Smith

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

9th August 2000