Purpose

The Department for Education allocates funding
each year to help maintain and improve the condition of school
buildings and grounds which continue to operate as maintained
establishments.

Education Support Services recommends that £417,130.46 is
allocated from the SCA to Building Services, Strategic Assets and
Land to be spent on cyclical maintenance.

Investment should be prioritised on keeping school buildings safe
and in good working order by tackling poor building condition,
building compliance, energy efficiency, and health and safety
issues. Throughout the year planned works will be required to
schools. The schools in Appendix 1 have been identified as part of
the first phase of works for 2024/25.

Education Support Services meet regularly with representatives from
Building Services and Strategic Assets and Land Engineering team to
discuss the maintained school sites to agree priority based upon
condition survey data.

A contingency of 10% (£37,920.95) has been included as
approval ref. SCA/2024/014 for this programme.

All unspent contingency will be reinvested to the carry forward
balance for the SCA.

Content

(1) That approval be given to:

i) proceed with the first programme of works as listed in Appendix
1 (Approval References SCA/2024/001 – SCA/2024/014).

ii) allocate a total of £417,130.46 from the School Condition
Allocation reserves (SCA) to enable the individual works listed in
Appendix 1 to proceed.

(2) that in connection with (1) above, that the following actions
are implemented to reduce any risk to the council in connection
with School Condition; ensure that repair / maintenance work for
schools is undertaken following an analysis of pre-determined
criteria and that records are maintained to demonstrate the
priority need of each school.

- Ensure that a corporate Risk Register is maintained and reviewed
to ensure all risks are appropriately identified and assessed, with
adequate mitigation;

- That cost estimates are reviewed to ensure that any future costs
can be managed within the allocated funding.