(a) support for measures identified in school development plans;

(b) support for measures to improve standards in schools which are causing concern; and

(c) support for measures to improve standards in schools included in an education authority's education development plan.

     2.

(a) Support for the assessment and training of persons undertaking the National Professional Qualification for Headship; and

(b) support for the training of serving headteachers undertaking the national leadership programme for serving headteachers.

     3.

(a) Support for the establishment of advanced skills teacher posts in specialist schools, including the provision of additional staff to assist such schools for periods during which teachers are carrying out activities related to their advanced skills teacher status and for the additional cost of employing an advanced skills teacher.

(b)


(i) Support for the establishment of advanced skills teacher posts in maintained schools, including the provision of additional staff to assist such schools for periods during which teachers are carrying out activities related to their advanced skills teacher status and for the additional cost of employing an advanced skills teacher; and

(ii) support for the additional costs of employing advanced skills teachers who are not attached to a particular school.

     4. Support for measures to assist the recruitment and retention of teachers.

     5. Support for the training and development of staff providing nursery education when the education provided is included in an education authority's early years development plan.

     6. Support for the provision of education, related day care, family education, training and development of staff and related services by early excellence centres.

     7.

(a) Support for the employment of consultants to provide training in maintained primary schools to improve the teaching of literacy;

(b) support for the training of teachers of literacy in maintained primary schools, including the provision of additional staff to assist such schools for the periods during which teachers are attending training courses and the costs of teachers attending training courses at weekends or during school holidays;

(c) support for the training and employment of classroom assistants to assist with the teaching of literacy at key stage 2;

(d) support for the training of supply teachers employed by an education authority; and

(e) support for the training of specialist teacher assistants, that is to say persons who can provide assistance and support for teachers in teaching subjects including reading and writing to primary school pupils.

     8. Support for the setting up and running of summer literacy schools and literacy intervention programmes in the first year of key stage 3, including-

(a) support for the training of teachers of literacy, including the provision of additional staff to assist such schools for the periods during which teachers are attending training courses;

(b) the provision of books, information technology and other equipment for use in connection with the teaching of literacy; and

(c) support for the employment of consultants to provide training in maintained secondary schools which were included in the 1998-1999 key stage 3 pilot programmes to improve the teaching of literacy.

     9.

(a) Support for the employment of consultants to provide training in maintained primary schools to improve the teaching of mathematics;

(b) support for the training of teachers of mathematics in maintained primary schools, including the provision of additional staff to assist such schools for the periods during which teachers are attending training courses;

(c) support for leading mathematics teachers, including the provision of additional staff to assist schools for the periods during which these teachers are planning and preparing demonstration mathematics lessons and giving support to local teachers; and

(d) the provision of equipment for use in connection with the teaching of mathematics at schools requiring intensive support.

     10. Measures to improve the teaching of mathematics in maintained schools at key stage 3, including the provision of additional staff to assist such schools for the periods during which teachers are attending training courses and support for the employment of consultants to provide training and support to such schools.

     11. Support for the setting up and running of summer numeracy schools.

     12. Support in establishing and maintaining study support centres within, or near, the premises of Premier League and First Division Football Clubs.

     13. The improvement of literacy skills of parents and children through family literacy programmes.

     14. The improvement of numeracy skills of parents and children through family numeracy programmes.

     15.

(a) Support for the introduction of local authority lifelong learning development plans; and

(b) support for measures to implement aims included in local authority lifelong learning development plans and other measures to improve the learning opportunities for adults and widen participation in learning.

     16. Support and training for teachers and for curriculum planning-

(a) for the effective introduction in maintained schools of vocational courses leading to General National Vocational Qualifications other than Part I General National Vocational Professional Qualifications;

(b) for the effective introduction of courses leading to GCE A level and AS examinations (that is to say General Certificate of Education advanced level and advanced subsidiary examinations);

(c) for the effective introduction of post-16 key skills qualifications, or units thereof, in maintained schools; and

(d) in preparation for any other changes to the organisation, teaching and assessment of the post-16 curriculum in maintained schools.

     17. Support for high quality work related learning projects with the intention of raising levels of attainment and motivation of 14 to 16 year olds in maintained secondary schools.

     18.

(a) Training for governors, headteachers, teachers and special needs assistants in maintained schools and non-maintained special schools, and for those staff in education authority support services with responsibility for children with special educational needs;

(b) the encouragement of partnerships between parents, education authorities, schools and voluntary bodies in order to secure a better education for children with special educational needs, through the use of materials, information technology and additional staff time to strengthen an education authority's input to annual review meetings;

(c) measures to encourage the attendance of children with special educational needs at mainstream schools;

(d) support for the development of links between special schools and mainstream schools; and

(e) support for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties or at risk of developing emotional and behavioural difficulties.

     19.

(a) Support for measures to reduce the number of children excluded from schools and truancy, including measures to encourage the attendance of children with behavioural difficulties at mainstream schools; and

(b) support for the provision of full-time education for all children of compulsory school age excluded from school for more than 15 school days.

     20.

(a) Training for teachers and youth and community workers with responsibility for providing education relating to the misuse of drugs; and

(b) other measures (including initiatives to promote inter-agency working) to assist teachers and youth and community workers in providing education about the misuse of drugs.

     21. The training of youth and community workers.

     22. Enabling maintained schools to secure effective use of the networked educational services made available through the National Grid for Learning.

     23. Measures, including training, to improve the security of the premises of maintained schools and the personal safety of persons working at the school and pupils.

     24. Support for beacon schools to assist them in undertaking activities designed to disseminate good practice in schools, including the provision of additional staff to assist such schools for periods during which teachers are undertaking such activities.

     25.

(a) Support, equipment and training for the teaching of


(i) mathematics, science and technology in specialist schools specialising in those subjects;

(ii) modern foreign languages in specialist schools specialising in those subjects;

(iii) the fine arts, performing arts or the media arts in specialist schools specialising in those subjects; and

(iv) sport in specialist schools specialising in that subject; and



(b) the improvement or alteration of the premises of specialist schools, other than an improvement or alteration which is intended to increase the aggregate capacity of schools in an area pursuant to an education authority's duty under section 14 of the 1996 Act to secure that sufficient schools are available for their area.

     26.

(a) Support for the making of provision to promote and facilitate access to education and more regular school attendance and to improve levels of educational achievement among persons to whom this paragraph applies, except to the extent that such provision is within the purpose set out in paragraph 28 of this Schedule.

(b) This paragraph applies to a person if


(i) by reason of his way of life (or, in the case of a child, his parent's way of life) he either has no fixed abode or leaves his main abode to live elsewhere for significant periods in each year;

(ii) he fell within paragraph (i) within a period of two years immediately preceding the making of the provision referred to in subparagraph (a); or

(iii) he is for the time being resident in a camp or other accommodation or establishment provided for refugees or for displaced or similar persons.

     27.

(a) Support for the continuing provision by an education authority of a central music service.

(b) Support for new or increased provision by an education authority of a central music service, including measures to expand such a service, to improve the quality of music teaching, to improve equality of access to music services and to promote co-operative working between education authorities.

     28. Measures to provide equality of educational opportunity for all minority ethnic groups, including in particular measures to assist pupils for whom English is an additional language and measures to raise standards of achievement for those minority ethnic groups who are particularly at risk of under-achieving.

     29. The provision of financial assistance to pupils over compulsory school age who attend a maintained school and who are in need of such assistance in order to continue to participate fully in such education and to achieve an appropriate standard.

     30. Support for additional literacy and numeracy classes for pupils in maintained schools who will be completing key stage 2 in the summer of 1999 or 2000.

     31.

(a) The improvement or alteration of the premises of maintained schools other than-


(i) specialist schools in circumstances where the conditions specified in regulation 2(2) are fulfilled, or

(ii) an improvement or alteration which is intended to increase the aggregate capacity of schools in an area pursuant to an education authority's duty under section 14 of the 1996 Act to secure that sufficient schools are available for their area;



(b) the improvement or alteration of other buildings used for educational purposes other than as a specialist school in circumstances where the conditions specified in regulation 2(2) are fulfilled; and

(c) the provision of equipment (including information technology) for educational purposes.

     32. Support for the preparation of asset management plans.

     33. Support for education authorities in the performance of their duty to promote high standards of education, including-

(a) support for the training of members of committees and officers dealing with education; and

(b) the provision of equipment for use in connection with such training, including relevant computer hardware and software.

     34. Support for education authorities to assist them in developing more detailed applications under section 10(4) of the 1998 Act to the Secretary of State to make an order under section 10(1) of that Act (order providing for schools to constitute collectively an education action zone).

     35. Support for maintained schools by the provision of reading books and other text-based media, including CD Roms.