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date	27/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Pedestrian Crossings
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether (1) academies, (2) free schools and (3) independent schools have powers to fund the cost of school crossing patrols.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pinnock
uin	HL2798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>Academies and free schools have powers in their funding agreements to pay for school crossing patrols, if they choose to do so. The model funding agreement provides that an Academy Trust can spend General Annual Grant on the normal running costs of the academy, this can include spending on school crossing patrols.</p><p> </p><p>Under section 50 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, local authority maintained schools can also undertake lawful activity that is for the purpose of the school, including paying for school crossing patrols. Independent schools are private bodies and can also fund school crossing patrols.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/11/2016 14:55:01 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4341 label Biography information for Baroness Pinnock

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registered interest
date	27/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Pedestrian Crossings
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether consideration has been given to amending the regulations in the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2013 which specifically exclude the use of a local authority’s non-schools education budget for funding school crossing patrols.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pinnock
uin	HL2799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>As spending on school crossing patrols is classified, for accounting purposes, as local transport spending rather than education services, it would not be appropriate to include school crossing patrols in the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2013 to enable such patrols to be funded from local authority schools or non-schools education budgets.</p><p> </p><p>However, local authorities are able to fund school crossing patrols from other non-ring fenced resources such as council tax and business rate income made available through the local government finance settlement. Additionally, there is nothing to stop schools using their delegated budgets to fund a service that is not strictly educational but clearly in the interest of the school, such as health services, transport or crossing patrols.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/11/2016 14:54:27 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4341 label Biography information for Baroness Pinnock