Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2332

The Education Standards Fund (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

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" "asylum seeker" means a person who has made a claim for asylum which has been recorded by the Secretary of State as having been made and which has not been recorded by the Secretary of State as having been finally determined or abandoned;
"claim for asylum" means a claim that it would be contrary to the United Kingdom's obligations under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951[3] and the Protocol to that Convention for him to be removed from, or required to leave, the United Kingdom;
"Excellence in Cities partnership" means a group of bodies participating in Excellence in Cities whose principal members are secondary schools and local authorities;
"fresh start school" means a maintained school which replaces a discontinued school - 
(i) which immediately before its discontinuance was a school to which section 15 of the 1998 Act applied, or

(ii) which was a secondary school, less than 15% of whose candidates for the General Certificate of Secondary Education in the academic year ending immediately before its discontinuance obtained at least 5 grades A* to C; and



"key stage 4" means the fourth key stage referred to in section 355(1)(d) of the 1996 Act;"; and

(b) in the definition of "prescribed expenditure", for "7(b)", in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted "7(c)".

     4. In regulation 5(2) the following entries shall be inserted at the end of the table in the left hand and right hand columns respectively - 

47	100
48	100
49	100
50	100
51	100
52	100
53	100".

     5. In regulation 6(4)(b) there shall be omitted the words "or, in the case of expenditure in respect of the items referred to in paragraph 26 of the Schedule, section 488 of the 1996 Act".

     6. In regulation 11(1) for "and 38 to 42" there shall be substituted ", 38 to 42, 47, 48, 50 and 52".

     7. Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows - 

(a) for paragraph 21(b) there shall be substituted - 


" (b) The education authorities referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above are - 

     Barking and Dagenham

     Barnsley

     Birmingham

     Bolton

     Bradford

     Brent

     Camden

     Cornwall

     Coventry

     Doncaster

     Ealing

     Gateshead

     Greenwich

     Hackney

     Halton

     Hammersmith and Fulham

     Haringey

     Hartlepool

     Islington

     Kingston-upon-Hull

     Knowsley

     Lambeth

     Lancashire

     Leeds

     Leicester

     Lewisham

     Liverpool

     Luton

     Manchester

     Middlesbrough

     Newham

     North East Lincolnshire

     North Tyneside

     Northumberland

     Nottingham City

     Oldham

     Salford

     Sandwell

     Sheffield

     South Tyneside

     Southampton

     Southwark

     St Helens

     Stoke-on-Trent

     Suffolk

     Sunderland

     Tameside

     Tower Hamlets

     Wakefield

     Walsall

     Waltham Forest

     Wandsworth

     Wigan

     Wirral

     Wolverhampton

     Worcestershire.";



(b) after paragraph 46 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs - 

     " 47. Support for schools participating in the Department for Education and Employment's pilot programme for improving results at key stage 3 known as "transforming key stage 3".

     48. Assisting in providing extra support for the teaching of literacy and numeracy to those key stage 2 pupils who require extra support in order to reach a satisfactory standard at key stage 2.

     49. Support for the development of Excellence in Cities plans - 


(a) by assisting with administrative costs incurred by local Excellence in Cities partnerships; and

(b) by assisting with costs incurred by schools which participate in local Excellence in Cities partnerships in developing such plans, including the provision of additional staff to assist for the periods during which teachers are engaged in developing such plans.



     50. Support for planning and establishing a fresh start school.

     51. Measures to improve standards of education of pupils whose parents are asylum seekers.

     52. Support for pupils with behavioural difficulties who are admitted other than at the beginning of a school year to a school included in Excellence in Cities.

     53. Measures to improve standards at key stage 4 through the development and support of collaborative arrangements between secondary schools."

Estelle Morris
Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment

24th August 2000

[2] S.I. 2000/703.back

[3] UKTS 39 (1954), Cmd 9171.back