Issue - meetings

To consider projects for approval, to be funded from the 2025/2026 Learning and Early Support Capital Plan.

Contact: David Martin, Corporate Landlord / Martin Wilby, Education Places and Access

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.

Cabinet gave consideration to a report which identified potential capital projects to be funded from the 2025/2026 Learning and Early Support Capital Plan, as approved by Council in 5 March 2025. The report advised that the funding would be used to address urgent condition related needs in maintained schools. The report also provided an update on investment in the first phase of Additionally Resourced Provisions and satellite provision to increase local sufficiency of SEND places linked to the Kirklees SEND Transformation Plan.

Cabinet were asked to approve the capital maintenance and Additionally Resourced Provisions and satellite programmes with the identified schemes so that they could be delivered in 2025/2026, which would enable further investment in the creation, expansion or enhancement of places for children with SEND, and the management of the capital maintenance programme. It was noted that undertaking the proposed programmes of work would help to ensure that maintenance schools remained to be warm, dry, secure and safe and that children with SEND could access high quality local provision with facilities to meet their needs, provided in a cost effective state funded model.

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.