Decision details

This report will identify potential projects, for Member approval, to be funded from the 2021/22 Achieve & Aspire Capital Maintenance section of the Capital Plan to address urgent condition related needs in maintained schools and ask for delegated powers for officers to manage the programme within its budget envelope. It will also ask Members to authorise delegated powers for officers to allocate funding from the Basic Need and SEND baselines to individual scheme level as these programmes are developed.

RESOLVED –

1)    That approval be given to the business case, as attached at Appendix A of the considered report, which outlines the rationale for the schools’ condition works programme, the availability of funding, the selection process and the main categories of work, thereby enabling the projects to be designed, procured and implemented.

2)    That approval be given to the detailed list of proposed works for schools in 2021/2022, as attached at Appendix B.

3)    That authorisation be given to (i) the allocation of additional High Needs Provisional Grant to Southgate, Honley High and Ravenshall Schools and (ii) the use of delegated authority to align any unallocated funding from the grant to project level.

4)    That authorisation be given to the allocation of the annual £500k Basic Need baseline grant funding for 2021/2022 to named projects, yet to be determined for the secondary school place need.

5)    That approval be given to the delegated powers as set out at paragraphs 2.22-2.24 of the considered report.