Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 606

The Education (Education Standards Etc. Grants) (England) Regulations 1999

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1999 No. 606

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Education Standards Etc. Grants) (England) Regulations 1999

	Made	6th March 1999
	Laid before Parliament	9th March 999
	Coming into force	1st April 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 484, 488, 489 and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996[1] the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement and application
    1. - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Education Standards Etc. Grants) (England) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

    (2) These Regulations apply in relation to local education authorities in England.

Interpretation
    2. - (1) In these Regulations-

"the 1989 Act" means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989[2];

"the 1996 Act" means the Education Act 1996;

"the 1998 Act" means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998[3];

"advanced skills teacher" means a teacher who has been certified by an assessor appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment as eligible for appointment to that post and who has been so appointed;

"annual review meeting" means a meeting to review a statement of special educational needs such as is referred to in regulations 15(5), 16(3) and 17(3) of the Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations 1994[4];

"approved expenditure" means any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3 below;

"asset management plan" means a plan prepared by an education authority which sets out priorities for capital expenditure on schools and the approach proposed locally to dealing with them;

"beacon school" means a maintained school participating in the Department for Education and Employment's pilot programme for beacon schools which requires schools to undertake responsibilities in relation to disseminating good practice in schools;

"classroom assistant" means an employee of an education authority or of the governing body of a school who is normally present in a classroom with a teacher and who assists the teacher;

"determine" means determine by notice in writing;

"early excellence centre" means an institution for providing education and other related services for children under compulsory school age (whether or not it also provides such services for other persons) participating in the Department for Education and Employment's pilot programme for early excellence centres;

"early years development partnership" means a body established in accordance with section 119(1) of the 1998 Act;

"early years development plan" means a plan prepared by an education authority in accordance with section 120 of the 1998 Act;

"education authority" means a local education authority;

"education development plan" means a plan prepared by an education authority in accordance with section 6 of the 1998 Act;

"family literacy programmes" means programmes which enable parents to improve their own literacy skills while helping their children to read and write;

"family numeracy programmes" means programmes which enable parents to improve their own numeracy skills while helping their children with numeracy;

"key skills qualification" means a qualification accredited as such by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority under section 24(2)(g) of the Education Act 1997[5];

"key stage 2" means the second key stage referred to in section 355(1)(b) of the 1996 Act;

"key stage 3" means the third key stage referred to in section 355(1)(c) of the 1996 Act;

"leading mathematics teacher" means an experienced mathematics teacher who is required to provide demonstration mathematics lessons;

"local authority lifelong learning development plan" means a plan prepared by an education authority setting out the steps it proposes to take to improve the learning opportunities for adults and widen participation in learning;

"mainstream school" means a maintained school other than a special school;

"maintained school" means

"National Grid for Learning" means a system of inter-connecting networks and education services based on the Internet which is designed to support teaching, learning, training and administration in schools, the wide education service, and the community;

"non-maintained special school" means a special school which is not a maintained special school;

"nursery education" has the meaning given to it in section 117 of the 1998 Act;

"prescribed expenditure" means

"relevant lender" has the meaning given to it in regulation 65(1) of the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997[6];

"school day" has the meaning given to it in section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996;

"school development plan" means a plan prepared by a school which sets out its main goals, what action is necessary to achieve those goals, the resources required and how success will be measured;

"special educational needs" has the meaning given to it in section 312 of the 1996 Act;

"special needs assistant" means an employee of an education authority or of the governing body of a school who is normally present in a classroom with a teacher and who assists the teacher in relation to children with special educational needs;

"special school" has the meaning given to it in section 337(1) of the 1996 Act;

"specialist school" means a maintained school which specialises in-

"standards fund grant" means a grant under these Regulations;

"study support centre" means a centre providing an out of school hours learning programme aimed at raising standards in literacy and numeracy;

"summer literacy school" means a scheme taking place during the summer holidays which aims to raise standards of literacy in pupils who are about to join secondary school;

"summer numeracy school" means a scheme taking place during the summer holidays which aims to raise standards of numeracy in pupils who are about to join secondary school;

"supply teacher" means a teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of supervising and so far as practicable teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available to teach them;

"teacher" means a person who by virtue of regulations[7] relating to the employment of teachers from time to time in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988[8] is qualified to be employed as a teacher at a school of the kind described in subsection (12) of that section; and

"youth and community worker" means a person employed or working in a voluntary capacity in connection with the provision of facilities of a kind mentioned in sections 2(3)(b) or 508 of the 1996 Act other than a person undertaking duties that are solely administrative, secretarial, clerical or manual.

(2) The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of the definition of "prescribed expenditure" in paragraph (1) above are that on 1st April 1999 the education authority-

Expenditure in respect of which standards fund grants are payable
3.Standards fund grants shall only be payable in respect of prescribed expenditure incurred or to be incurred in a financial year to the extent to which that expenditure is approved for that year by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations.

Standards fund grants in respect of payments to third parties
4.Where-

such payments shall to that extent be treated as prescribed expenditure for the purposes of these Regulations.

Rate of standards fund grant
5. - (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) below, standards fund grants in respect of approved expenditure incurred on or after 1st April 1999 shall be payable at the rate of 50 per cent. of such expenditure in respect of items referred to in the paragraphs of Schedule 1 other than paragraph 28.

(2) Standards fund grants in respect of approved expenditure incurred on or after 1st April 1999 in respect of items referred to in the paragraphs of Schedule 1 listed in the left hand column of the table below shall be payable at the percentage rate of such expenditure specified in relation thereto in the right hand column of the table.

Paragraph in Schedule 1	Rate (%)
2a	100
3a	100
4	100
6	100
23	75
24	100
25	100
26	65
27a	100
29	100
30	100
31	100
32	100
33	100
34	100
35	100

    (3) Standards fund grants in respect of approved expenditure incurred on or after 1st April 1999 in respect of items referred to in paragraph 28 of Schedule 1 shall be payable, in relation to the education authorities listed in the left hand column of the table in Schedule 2, at the percentage rate of such expenditure specified in the right hand column of the table.

Conditions for payment of standards fund grant
    6. - (1) No payment of standards fund grant shall be made except in response to an application in writing from an education authority to the Secretary of State, authenticated by the officer of the authority responsible for the administration of their financial affairs or his deputy.

    (2) Applications for the payment of standards fund grant which relate to expenditure incurred on or after 1st April 1999 shall relate to expenditure over one or more of the periods specified in paragraph (3) below and shall specify the approved expenditure in respect of which grant is applied for which has been or which it is estimated will be incurred by the education authority during each such period.

    (3) The periods referred to in paragraphs (2), (4) and (6) of this regulation are-

(4) Where an application relating to approved expenditure which has been or which it is estimated will be incurred during the period commencing on 1st January in any year is submitted under paragraph (1) above, such payment as the Secretary of State may determine may be made forthwith, but no further payment of standards fund grant shall be made in respect of that expenditure until a statement has been submitted in accordance with paragraph (5)(a) below.

(5) Each education authority that has received or seeks to receive a payment of standards fund grant in respect of expenditure incurred during any financial year shall, before 31st July in the following financial year or as soon as practicable after that date-

    (6) No payment of standards fund grant shall be made in respect of expenditure incurred by an education authority in the period beginning on 1st August in any year or any subsequent period if standards fund grant was paid to the authority in respect of expenditure in the previous financial year but the Secretary of State has not yet received the auditor's certificate referred to in paragraph (5)(b) above for that year.

    (7) Any under-payment or over-payment of standards fund grant which remains outstanding following receipt of the auditor's certificate referred to in paragraph (5)(b) above shall, without prejudice to the recovery of any over-payment from any subsequent payment of standards fund grant to the education authority, be adjusted by payment between the authority and the Secretary of State.

    7.Where at the time of approving expenditure for the purposes of these Regulations, the Secretary of State requests information in respect of any purpose listed in Schedule 1, payment of standards fund grant in respect of that purpose shall be conditional on that information being included in the education authority's application for payment of grant.

    8. - (1) The Secretary of State may from time to time determine further conditions on the fulfilment of which the making of any payment under these Regulations shall be dependent.

    (2) Where conditions have been determined under this regulation no standards fund grant shall be payable unless such conditions have either been fulfilled or been withdrawn under paragraph (3) below.

    (3) The Secretary of State may determine to withdraw or, after consulting the education authority, vary conditions determined under this regulation.

Requirements to be complied with
    9.Any education authority to whom a payment of standards fund grant has been made shall, if so required by the Secretary of State, furnish him with such further information as may be required to enable him to verify that any grant paid has been properly paid under these Regulations.

    10. - (1) Any education authority to whom a payment of standards fund grant has been made shall comply with such requirements as may be determined by the Secretary of State in the case in question.

    (2) Requirements determined under this regulation may in particular include requirements as to-

11. - (1) The Secretary of State may require any education authority to whom a payment of standards fund grant in respect of the items specified in paragraphs 1(a), 1(b), 3(a), 3(b), 8, 11, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30 or 35 of Schedule 1 is made to delegate decisions about the spending of-

to the governing body of a maintained school.

(2) The Secretary of State may determine to withdraw or, after consulting the education authority, vary requirements determined in pursuance of this regulation.

Revocation, amendment and transitional provisions
12. - (1) The following Regulations are hereby revoked, namely-

(2)

" "authority" means a local education authority in Wales;"; and

    (3) Nothing in paragraphs (1) or (2) above shall prevent the Secretary of State making payments of grant authorised by the Regulations revoked or, as the case may be, amended by either of those paragraphs in respect of expenditure incurred on or before 31st March 1999 or affect any condition or requirement determined by or in accordance with any of those Regulations.


Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment

     1999

Notes:

[1] 1996 c. 56; amended by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, section 7(10) and Schedule 30, paragraphs 125 and 126; see section 579(1) for the definition of "regulations".back

[2] 1989 c. 42.back

[3] 1998 c. 31.back

[4] S.I. 1994/1047.back

[5] 1997 c. 44.back

[6] S.I. 1997/319.back

[7] The regulations currently in force are the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/543), amended by S.I. 1994/222, section 14(2) of the Education Act 1994 (c. 30), S.I. 1995/602 and 2594, S.I. 1996/1603, S.I. 1997/368 and 2679 and S.I. 1998/1584.back

[8] Section 218 was amended by paragraph 49 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), section 14(1) and (3) of, and paragraph 8(4) of Schedule 2 to, the Education Act 1994, paragraph 76 of Schedule 73 to the 1996 Act, section 49(1)-(4) of the Education Act 1997 and prospectively by sections 11, 13 and 18 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.back

[9] 1998 c. 18.back

[10] S.I. 1998/656.back

[11] S.I. 1998/1741.back

[12] S.I. 1998/2698.back

[13] S.I. 1999/252.back

[14] S.I. 1999/447.back

[15] S.I. 1993/569, amended by S.I. 1995/543.back