The Education (Partnership Grant) Regulations 1998
These Regulations, which are made under sections 484, 485 and 489 of the Education Act 1996, authorise the Secretary of State to pay grants in connection with expenditure approved by the Secretary of State in relation to—projects (“partnership projects”) in which a group of schools, which must include at least one independent school and one maintained school, co-operate with each other (and other persons or organisations) with a view to expanding educational opportunities and improving educational standards for the pupils attending such schools (regulation 3); orresearch into partnership projects (regulation 5).