Decision details

2026/27 Proposed allocation of funding from the Children and Families Directorate, Learning and Early Support Schools Capital Maintenance baseline section of the Capital Plan.

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This report will identify potential projects, for Member approval, to be funded from the 2026/27 – 2027/28 Corporate Landlord Programme baselines of the Capital Plan. It will seek Officer Delegations to manage the programmes within the two-year budget envelope.

 

Decision:

RESOLVED –

 

1)    That approval be given to the business case found at Appendix A of the considered report, which outlined the rationale for the schools’ condition and Health and Safety (H&S) works programme, the availability of funding, the selection process and the main categories of work, thereby enabling the projects concerned to be designed, procured and implemented. 

2)    That approval be given to the list of proposed condition and H&S related works in maintained schools for 2026/2027, which was appended to the report (Appendix B).

3)    The authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Place and/or Service Director Development as outlined in the considered report to aid the management of the schools’ baseline condition and H&S programme.

4)    That authority be delegated to the Executive Director – Place to procure and award contracts arising from the programme of works and to authorise the Service Director – Legal, Governance and Commissioning to enter into the necessary contracts / legal documents in accordance with the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules.

Report author: David Martin

Publication date: 26/03/2026

Date of decision: 24/03/2026

Decided at meeting: 24/03/2026 - Cabinet

Effective from: 01/04/2026

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