Decision details

This report will identify potential Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) projects at Honley and Newsome High Schools and Ravenshall School and also allocate Basic Need funding to individual scheme level, for Member approval, to be funded from the Learning and Early Support Special Provision and Basic Need EFSA grants. 

1) That the additional capital grant being provided by the DfE for Special Provision projects, as detailed within paragraph 2.2 of the considered report, be noted.

2) That approval be given to the proposed capital allocations for projects at Ravenshall School, Newsome High School and Honley High School, as detailed in the considered report, which would be funded from the Learning and early Support Special Provision grant baseline section of the Capital Plan and that authorisation be given for the projects to be designed, procured and implemented within the overall programme budget of £1.794m.

3) That approval be given to capital allocations for modular projects at Brambles Primary Academy and Hanging Heaton CE (VC) Junior and Infant School, to be funded from the Learning and Early Support Basic Need Grant baseline section of the Capital Plan, enabling the specified projects to be implemented on site.

4) That approval be given to delegate powers, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rule 3.16, to the Service Director for Economy and Skills to manage the implementation of the works identified within the considered report within the respective agreed total programme budgets, including authority to transfer resources between schemes and within the overall programme budget to enable the successful delivery of the individual projects.