Decision details

Purpose of Report: To set out details of the proposed schools capital maintenance programme and provide options for funding including the virement of funds from the current basic need to the capital maintenance budget.

Resolved:  (i)      That the resources available in the Children, Education & Communities (CEC) capital programme for maintenance and building work at schools, and for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) expansion, be noted.

                   (ii)      That the two specific Maintenance schemes, at a budgeted individual cost of £250k and £300k respectively, be approved.

                   (iii)     That the Applefields SEND scheme, at a budgeted cost of £270k, be approved.

                   (iv)    That the Maintenance schemes to be developed from the estimated available resource within the 2019/20 capital programme be approved, subject to final affordability once overall funding and detailed cost estimates are available.

                   (v)     That approval of expenditure on individual schemes be delegated to appropriate Officers.

Reasons:   (i)      To maximise the programme of maintenance within the maintained school estate, dealing with the most urgent issues for 2019/20.

                   (ii)      To enable work to be carried out at Applefields School as part of the Inclusion Review, to better provide for the education of its pupils in the forthcoming school years.