Issue - meetings

This report reviews the progress of the Building Schools for the Future and Primary Schools for the Future (BSF) programmes and recommends to members criteria for prioritisation of the order in which schools should enter the programmes.

Advice of the Advisory Panel:

The Executive Member is advised to approve the criteria for prioritising the order in which the schools should enter the programmes.

Decision of the Executive Member:

RESOLVED:       that the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:            to have a strategy for prioritisation in place that would allow DfES to release the funding as it becomes due.

Members considered a report that reviewed the progress of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programmes and recommended to Members criteria for prioritisation of the order in which schools should enter the programmes.

Officers explained that the main concept of the report was about setting criteria rather than the production of a list of schools and their building needs. They were hoping to bring a list of schools to an early summer meeting of the Executive Members for Children’s Services and Advisory Panel. These would be updated annually to reflect any change in needs and circumstances that may occur.

Advice of the Advisory Panel:

The Executive Member is advised to approve the criteria for prioritising the order in which the schools should enter the programmes.

Decision of the Executive Member:

RESOLVED:       That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:            To have a strategy for prioritisation in place that would allow DfES to release the funding as it becomes due.