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

The Department for Education provides capital funding to local authorities responsible for schools. This funding includes the schools condition allocation which is intended for the maintenance of community and voluntary controlled schools.

The distribution of this funding is determined in accordance with the principles set out in the schools capital investment strategy and is based on regular condition surveys.

Appendix A provides the details of the schemes being proposed as part of this programme of works.

That:

(a)       The school maintenance schemes as set out in appendix A be approved for implementation in 2021/22 and 2022/23;

(b)       The Assistant Director Education Development and Skills be authorised to take all operational decisions necessary to implement the approved schemes, and any other urgent contingency schemes required, within the approved budget of £2.940m for maintenance;

(c)       The Assistant Director Education Development and Skills be authorised to take all operational decisions necessary to vary the approved schemes should the amount of funding received from the Department for Education differ from that used to determine the proposed schemes.

1.         The maintenance grant supporting building works in schools could be profiled differently. The schemes have been determined from the last condition reports produced for each school. The profile has been considered extensively by the schools capital investment strategy team, the council’s property services section and the capital strategy consultative group (involving headteachers). The proposed works are addressing the known priorities.