1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education Standards Fund (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 22nd September 2000.

2. The Education Standards Fund (England) Regulations 2000( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.

3. In regulation 2(1)—

(a) the following definitions shall be inserted at the appropriate places—

“ “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—

“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—

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. ”