The School Finance (England) Regulations 2008

Access to education

10.  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) planning and managing the supply of school places, including the authority’s functions in relation to the establishment, alteration or discontinuance of schools pursuant to Part 2 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 2006 Act;

(c) the authority’s functions in relation to the exclusion of pupils from schools, excluding any provision of education to such pupils, but including advice to the parents of such pupils;

(d) the authority’s functions under sections 508A, 508E and 509 (school travel) of the 1996 Act(1); and

(e) 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(2) of the 1996 Act(2).

(1)

Part 6 of the 2006 Act inserts new sections 508A and 508E. Section 509 was substituted by paragraphs 57 and 33 of Schedule 30 to the 1998 Act .

(2)

Section 518 was substituted by section 129 of the 1998 Act. Regulations currently in force under section 518 are the Local Education Authority (Payment of School Expenses) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1727) and the Local Education Authority (Post Compulsory Education Awards) Regulations (S.I. 1999/229 as amended by 2000/2057).