Plus the # 415 million healthy
schools capital programme unveiled in February and # 530 million for new free schools and existing school refurbishment handed out in last month's budget.
After a decade during which resources and investment reached levels never seen before,
the schools capital programme now appears to face an uncertain future.
Not exact matches
The
capital raised will be utilised to build more
school learning
programmes, in addition to expanding operations across India, Gaurava Yadav, founder and CEO, EduAce Services, said in a statement.
This could involve monies saved from the
capital funding
programme of Catholic
schools which have become Academies.
The funding differences are even more stark: if a new
school is opening under the free
school programme the
capital funding comes from the generous free
school budget but if a local authority is opening a new
school, the funding must come from either general local authority funds (the calls upon which of course are many), or more likely from «targeted basic need funding», which is funding provided by the DfE to address the shortage of
school places.
The Welsh government has announced a further # 2.3 billion to continue its long - term
capital investment
programme for Welsh
school buildings.
In the first wave of the
programme, 260
schools received
capital funding of # 2.4 bn.
This is part of TfL's sustainable travel to
school programme, STARS, to improve air quality in the
Capital.
With limited funding available to provide extra
school places, and many existing
schools in need of a major overhaul, there could not be a better time to look more closely at how excellent design can help the government's
capital funding
programme stretch as far as possible while delivering good outcomes.
With limited funding available to provide extra
school places, and many existing
schools in need of a major overhaul, now is the time to look more closely at how excellent design can help the government's
capital funding
programme stretch as far as possible, writes Emilia Plotka, RIBA's policy advisor.
The money will allow the flagship 21st Century
Schools and Education
Programme — a major, long - term and strategic
capital investment
programme — to continue for a second wave of investment.
In February, the previous Government announced that the # 415 million levy money would be invested in facilities to support sports, after -
school activities and promoting healthy eating, as part of a healthy pupils
capital programme.
In terms of where the money will come from, the Education Secretary told MPs that # 420m would be found from the main
schools capital budget, while # 280m could be saved in efficiencies from the free
schools programme.
But the rest of the
programme, some 137
schools earmarked for the
programme a year ago, it added, would now be «delivered using
capital funding, subject to the next spending review settlement.
«What we want to see is a much more balanced
programme of
capital funding so that existing poor
school buildings get the funding and investment they need and those new
schools are built, as well as whatever the government chooses to do on the free
schools programme.
This delay exposes the incompetence that has marred the education secretary's handling of
schools capital, since his scrapping of the BSF
programme».
Save the Children UK has implemented The Families and
Schools Together (FAST) programme that aims to increase the social capital of disadvantaged families by bringing together children, parents and schools in a series of after - school acti
Schools Together (FAST)
programme that aims to increase the social
capital of disadvantaged families by bringing together children, parents and
schools in a series of after - school acti
schools in a series of after -
school activities.
The show will complement the Zabludowicz Collection's annual Testing Ground
programme, which includes projects organised by MA Curating students from art
schools across the
capital.