Building schools for the Future is a new, strategic approach to capital investment in school buildings that will create the environment for the government's agenda of educational transformation in which 180 schools across England will benefit.
Under Building Schools for the Future, every child will be educated in a 21st Century environment within 15 years. Schools will be rebuilt, remodelled or upgraded to provide flexible, inclusive, attractive learning environments that teachers want to teach in and pupils want to learn in.
The schools will have high quality facilities and integrated information technology to help deliver personalised learning tailored to the needs, interests and aptitudes of every child.
Building Schools for the Future will allow for:
Building Schools for the Future is about more than fixing leaking roofs. The scale of Building Schools for the Future allows the opportunity to move from patch and mend spending on individual schools to strategic investment across all local authority boundaries.
Partnerships for Schools will:
Partnerships for Schools will work with local authorities, helping them to select a private sector partner to form Local Education Partnerships that will bring together the best private sector expertise to construct, maintain and operate the new facilities, supporting head teachers in creating new schools and allowing teachers to focus on what they do best.
Building Schools for the Future is providing £2.2 billion for school capital investment for 2005-06, representing two-fifths of total school capital spending. The remaining three-fifths will be allocated to local authorities and schools through the existing successful capital programmes.
Capital funding available for investment in school buildings has risen sharply from £683 million in 1996-97 to £3.8 billion in 2003-04. It increases further to £4.5 billion in 2004-06 and to £5.1 billion in 2005-06.
Building Schools for the Future will include both conventional and Public Finance Initiative funding. Of the £2.2 billion for Building Schools for the Future, £1.2 billion (55.5%) will be covered by Public Finance Initiative credits.
The indicative funding allocation aims to allow for a total of almost 200 new schools to be built between the first wave and Pathfinder authorities.
Existing successful programmes will be maintained, and capital available for primary schools will be increased in the spending review period.
Antoinette Antoine
Building Schools for the Future
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