Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;
“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
“the 2002 Regulations” means the Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations 2002;
“allocation formula” means the authority’s formula under regulation 10 of the 2002 Regulations used to determine schools' budget shares;
“authority” means a local education authority;
“Class Size grant” means grant paid in accordance with section 3 of the 1998 Act;
“budget statement” means the statement referred to in section 52(1) of the 1998 Act;
“DfES number” means the reference number allocated to a school by the Department for Education and Skills;
“factor” means one of the factors or criteria taken into account in the allocation formula;
“ISB” means an authority’s individual schools budget within the meaning of section 46(2) of the 1998 Act;
“LEA number” means the reference number allocated to an authority by the Department for Education and Skills;
“LSB” means an authority’s local schools budget within the meaning of section 46(1) of the 1998 Act;
“maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school;
“relevant” in relation to “age”, “age group” and “year group” means an age, age group or year group separately treated in the allocation formula for the purposes of determining that part of each school’s budget share which is to be determined by reference to numbers of registered pupils;
“pupil-led” funding as defined in Part III of the 2002 Regulations;
“school” means a maintained school;
“School Standards Grant” means the grant known as School Standards Grant paid in accordance with section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, which in the case of primary, secondary and special schools is paid on condition that it is appropriated to the ISB;
“special educational needs” and “special educational provision” have the meanings given to those expressions by section 312 of the 1996 Act;
“Standards Fund grant” means grant paid under section 484 of the 1996 Act together with the authority’s expenditure not offset by that grant but taken into account in determining the amount of that grant;
“statement” in relation to a pupil with special educational needs means a statement made under section 324 of the 1996 Act; and
“version number” means a number which distinguishes a particular form submitted by the authority from earlier versions of that form prepared by them.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a)
(a) references to primary of secondary schools do not include special schools; and
(b)
(b) references to the number or numbers of registered pupils at one or more schools are references to the number or numbers of such pupils required under the allocation formula to be used for the initial determination of that school’s budget share or those schools' budget shares for the year but ignoring any weighting in accordance with paragraph (5) or any adjustment under paragraph (6) of regulation 11 of the 2002 Regulations.
(3) The following table shows provisions of the 1996 Act or the 1998 Act defining or otherwise explaining expressions used in these Regulations—
financial year |
section 579(1) of the 1996 Act |
scheme |
section 48(1) of the 1998 Act |
school’s budget share |
section 47(1) of the 1998 Act. |
(4) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered.
