To approve the proposed expenditure of capital grants for school building and maintenance works.

The cabinet member for young people and children’s wellbeing introduced the report and highlighted that the council were investing in the future of county’s children and the facilities needed to reflect that.    

RESOLVED

That:

(a)       The school maintenance schemes as set out in appendices 1 and 2 be approved spending £1m on basic need to provide sufficient high quality places, £1,457k to address maintenance issues and £651k allocated to schemes funded through the Local Authority Co-ordinated Voluntary Aided Programme; and

(b)       Authority is delegated to the interim education and capital manager to take all operational decisions necessary to implement the above recommendations within the approved budgets.