The School Finance (England) Regulations 2008

Additional factors or criteria

19.—(1) Subject to regulation 18 (differential funding), a local education authority may, in determining budget shares in respect of funding periods 1, 2 and 3, take into account in their formulae any or all of the factors or criteria set out in Schedule 3.

(2) A local education authority must, in determining budget shares for both primary and secondary schools which they maintain, take into account in their formulae a factor or factors based on the incidence of social deprivation among pupils registered at all such schools if they have no factor elsewhere in their formulae which is based on such incidence.

(3) A factor included in a local education authority’s formula pursuant to paragraph 17 of Schedule 3 (school milk, meals and refreshment) is not, for the purpose of paragraph (2), a factor based on the incidence of social deprivation among pupils registered at a school.

(4) The factors and criteria set out in Schedule 3 may not be taken into account by a local education authority on the basis of actual or estimated cost unless otherwise stated in that Schedule.

(5) Where a local education authority make changes to the factors or criteria taken into account in their formula from one funding period to the next, they may make such transitional provision as they consider reasonable.