Purpose

Cabinet to approve the updated Schools Capital
Programme following KD 5856, give approval to spend the capital
budget, agree to proceed to delivery and delegate authority for the
award contracts for the works, services and goods.

Decision

DECISION: The Cabinet agreed
 

Give approval for the Updated
Schools Capital Programme 2025/26 - 2027/28 as set out in the
report and Restricted Appendix A.
Give approval to revised spend of
£13.4m for the schools’ 2025/26 capital budget as
detailed in restricted Appendix A.
Give approval to commit a revised
total spend of £29.1m over 2025/26 to 2027/28 as detailed in
restricted Appendix A.
Give approval to commence the
delivery of additional projects as highlighted in green in
Restricted Appendix ‘A’ to allow tenders to be pursued
in compliance with the Council’s Contract Procedure
Rules.
Delegate authority to Executive
Director of People to:

A.   
Approve the award of works and services contracts up to the value
of £5m including professional and technical expenses as
detailed in Restricted Appendix ‘A’ and those projects
added to the programme as below.
B.   
Add and omit projects to the programme from the approved
contingency budgets subject to the total spend being contained
within the approved £29.1m or in the case of additional
funding being approved as VII below, to add additional projects to
the revised value of the programme.
 

Delegate authority to the Lead
Member for Children’s Services to approve the award of works
and services contracts over the value of £5m including
professional and technical expenses as detailed in Restricted
Appendix ‘A’.
Delegate authority to the Executive
Director of People in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer
to accept any additional in year funding that is secured, to add
this to the Schools Capital Programme and increase the total
approved budget accordingly.
Note the risk of that the two
proposed SEN schools may not be delivered through the SEN Wave
Programme and should these not progress, give approval

 
A.   
To take forward the Addison House project by preparing a
feasibility study for the Council to deliver SEN satellite
provision.
B.   
To undertake feasibility studies, options appraisal and associated
work to identify appropriate sites for the development of
large scale SEN provision.
 

 
IX.        
Gives approval for £250k of funding to be taken from capital
receipts generated from the sale of vacant Caretaker Houses and to
be used to fund feasibility studies as revenue expenditure.