Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
Made
9th August 2000
Laid before Parliament
11th August 2000
Coming into force
1st September 2000
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 50 and 63(3) of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Regulations 4 and 8
City of Sunderland Council
Croydon London Borough Council
East Riding of Yorkshire District Council
Herefordshire District Council
Leicester City Council
Northumberland County Council
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Southwark London Borough Council
Wokingham District Council
Ashington Education Action Zone
Excellence in Cities programme—Rotherham
Herefordshire Education Action Zone
Leicester (South and West) Education Action Zone
New Addington Education Action Zone
North Southwark Education Action Zone
Southwark Excellence in Cities project
Sunderland Building Our Future Education Action Zone
Withernsea & South Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which apply in relation to England, authorise the Secretary of State to pay bursaries and grants to facilitate and encourage the training of qualified school teachers (other than head teachers) employed in schools, or by the local education authorities, included in a pilot scheme which comprises the City of Sunderland Council, East Riding of Yorkshire District Council, Herefordshire District Council, Leicester City Council, the London Boroughs of Croydon and Southwark, Northumberland County Council, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Wokingham District Council, Ashington Education Action Zone, Excellence in Cities programme—Rotherham, Herefordshire Education Action Zone, Leicester (South and West) Education Action Zone, New Addington Education Action Zone, North Southwark Education Action Zone, Southwark Excellence in Cities project, Sunderland Building Our Future Education Action Zone, and Withernsea & South Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone.
Bursaries and grants are payable up to a total of £500 for each teacher for training approved by the Secretary of State, or £700 where the teacher is employed to work in one or more publicly maintained schools participating in one of the Excellence in Cities projects or in (or situated in the area of) one of the Education Action Zones listed in Part II of the Schedule to the Regulations. They are payable as bursaries to teachers or as grants to persons other than a local education authority. The pilot scheme runs from 1st September 2000 to 31st March 2002. Teachers are eligible provided their training is not subsidised by other public funds.
1986 c. 61; section 50 was amended by section 278(6) of, and paragraph 102 of Schedule 19 to, the Education Act 1993 (c. 35) (which continue in force by virtue of paragraph 65 of Schedule 37 to the Education Act 1996 (c. 56)) and section 13 of the Education Act 1994 (c. 30), and section 63(3) was amended by paragraph 107(a) of Schedule 19 to the Education Act 1993. The Secretary of State can exercise the power under section 50 only in relation to England: see article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).