Decision details

This report will identify potential projects, for Member approval, to be funded from the 2025/26 Learning and Early Support Capital Maintenance section of the Capital Plan to address urgent condition related needs in maintained schools as well as from the Strategic Priorities District Sufficiency ARP’s/Satellite section. It will ask for delegated powers for officers to manage the programmes within their respective budget envelopes.

RESOLVED –

1)    That the business case outlining the rationale for the schools condition programme, the availability of funding, the selection process and main categories of work, as set out at Appendix A of the report, be approved.

2)    That the detailed list of proposed condition works in schools for 2025/2026, as set out at Appendix B, be approved.

3)    That the update on the additionally resourced provisions/satellites phase 1 programme be noted.

4)    That approval be given to the two proposed new additionally resourced provision schemes as identified within the report, to support the creation of additional places for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

5)    That authority be delegated to the relevant Service Directors as detailed in paragraphs2.16 to 2.18 of the report in order to aid the management of the schools’ baseline condition and the additionally resourced provisions/satellites sites special educational needs and disabilities programmes.