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2002 No. 1841

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

  Made 16th July 2002 
  Laid before Parliament 23rd July 2002 
  Coming into force 19th August 2002 

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 518 and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996[1] the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 19th August 2002.

Amendment of Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2001
     2. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2001[2] shall be amended as follows.

     3. In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation) - 

     4. In regulation 2 for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph - 

     5. In regulation 6(1) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph - 


Margaret Hodge
Minister of State, Department for Education and Skills

16th July 2002


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2001.

They extend the definition of a "vulnerable student" in regulation 2 in three respects.

The first concerns those students who are vulnerable students because they are estranged from their parents during the relevant period (as defined in the Regulations), but who then reconcile with their parents in a subsequent year. They will now not lose their vulnerability status on reconciliation, but will continue to be treated as vulnerable students for the purposes of subsequent applications.

The second concerns those students who are vulnerable students because they are pregnant during the relevant period (as defined in the Regulations). These students will now not lose their vulnerability status for the purposes of subsequent applications, where they suffer a loss or termination of the pregnancy, the child dies or is in the care of a local authority.

The third concerns those students who are vulnerable students because they have failed to achieve NVQ level 1, GNVQ level 1, any GCSE passes or any qualifications of a higher standard by the end of their final school year. This category of vulnerable students will be extended to cover those who have achieved a maximum of one GCSE pass at grade A-C by the end of their final school year.

Regulation 2 has also amended the definition of "the student's final school year". This now no longer differentiates between those students who are attending school and those who are not. This extends eligibility for an education maintenance allowance to those students who have repeated a year at school and so are a year older than their fellow pupils, but who now wish to study for their final year at school.

Regulation 6 has been amended to allow education maintenance allowances to be paid in respect of students whose final school year was 2001-2002.

Notes:

 [1] 1996 c. 56; section 518 was substituted by section 129 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31). By virtue of S.I. 1999/672 the powers conferred by this section are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England.back

[2] S.I. 2001/2750.back


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  Prepared 23 July 2002

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