Issue - meetings

Report CEF23085

The report set out the Education Planning Maintenance Programme for 2024/25.

The Local Authority received an annual School Conditions Allocation from the Department for Education to undertake capital maintenance works at Local Authority Maintained Schools.  The allocation of £407k for 2024/25 was made on the basis of five remaining Local Authority Maintained Schools, of which Riverside SEND School operated out of four satellite sites and would be distributed with reference to each school’s development plan as well as condition surveys and the Department for Education’s Condition Data Collection reports.  In response to questions from Members, the Head of Sufficiency advised that Marjorie McClure School was due to convert to academy status as part of the NEST Multi-Academy Trust from 1 September 2024 so would no longer be part of the Education Planning Maintenance Programme.  It was possible that Southborough Primary School could also seek academization in future, but this was a matter for the School’s Interim Executive Board.

RESOLVED: That the recommendations in the report be supported.