The Financing of Maintained Schools (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1999 (which now apply only to Wales) to give effect to a decision by the National Assembly that it is not appropriate for expenditure on the administration of education committees or expenditure on external audit to be included in a local education authority’s local schools budget. These Regulations accordingly amend regulations 2 and 3 of the 1999 Regulations (which set out what expenditure is, and is not, included in that budget) to reflect that decision.

The Regulations also make consequential amendments to Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations (which specifies classes and descriptions of expenditure which may be deducted from a local education authority’s local schools budget in order to arrive at their individual schools budget) to remove references to the 2 categories of expenditure referred to above.