The DfES

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The DfES Primary Capital Programme
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A report on a meeting held on Friday 22nd Sept
4-6pm at Cornwall College held by Helen Williams
Trevor Cooper
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PCP at a glance

• To ensure we have Primary Schools fully equipped
  for the 21st Century learning, at the heart of
  the community, with childrens services in reach
  of every family.
• To support national policy aims raising
  standards, ECM, inclusion, diversity and
  responsiveness, extended services,
  personalisation.

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PCP at a glance

• To rebuild, remodel or refurbish at least half of
  all primary schools.
• Targeted to address deprivation and responding to
  population changes.

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PCP at a glance

• Schools will occupy a central position at the
  heart of our communities
• Schools will need environments to facilitate
  personalised learning and enable them to offer a
  wide range of services contribute to ECM.

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Scope and Timescale

• Funding starts in 2008 and runs for 15 years.
• Primary, middle-deemed primary, and primary-age
  special schools eligible.
• Year 1 funding is already allocated for regional
  pilots.
• All local authorities and dioceses benefit from
  year 2.
• Schools not receiving the extra investment will
  continue to receive devolved formula capital
  funding.

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Funding

• 150million 2008-2009 rising to 500million in
  2009-2010 and future years. - Some 7 billion
  in all.
• Added impact will be gained by joining up with an
  estimated 2 billion per year in current primary
  and early years baseline budget.
• Added impact will also be gained by joining up
  with eligible capital from other government
  departments and local resources.

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Primary Capital Programme

• A fundamentally different programme A step
  change from patch mend and disjointed
  investment to Strategic, service wide planning
  and redesign
• This initiative will translate National
  Objectives into local strategic infrastructure
  plans.
• Plans will be approved and monitored by the DfES
  to release the funding.

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Objectives achieved

• Primary buildings will have been brought up to a
  good standard.
• Every child and family will have access to
  year-round childcare, parenting support,
  specialist support services, a good range of
  after-school activities and access to ICT and
  sports and arts facilities after hours access
  will be at their childs primary school or at a
  school or venue nearby with supervised transfer
  arrangements.

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Objectives achieved

• Schools will have appropriate kitchen and dining
  facilities to help raise nutritional standards of
  school meals and other food and drink consumed on
  the premises, and increase the uptake of school
  meals including FSM.
• Every school will provide first-class ICT
  facilities so that pupils can study in a way that
  suits them.
• Authorities will have restructured their primary
  buildings to provide the flexibility to deal with
  demographic pressures.

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An Opportunity

• The LA have asked for responses from the
  partnerships across Cornwall.
• Your chance to influence what happens to
  education in our area.
• Responses to the LA are required by the end of
  December.

But you need to consider -
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Cornwall Falling Rolls

• The lowest number of primary pupils is expected
  in 2010.
• Numbers are expected to fall by about 1100 in the
  next 4 years.

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Cornwall Falling Rolls

• 40,579 pupils in 1998 down to 37,769 in 2006
• 3,883 expected pupil loss from 1998 to 2010.
• If we were to share all our pupils among all our
  schools each school would have 158 pupils. The
  loss of 3,883 pupils equates to the loss of 25
  schools of that size.

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Cornwall Falling Rolls

• There are just over 6,000 places in reception
  classes and around 4,800 children entered this
  September.
• Some schools have had no pupils entering this
  September.

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Cornwall Headteachers

• Of the 37 Headships advertised in the first half
  of 2006, 4 had to be advertised for a third time
  and in one case a fourth time.
• 17 of the Headship appointments carried out in
  the first half of this year were for schools with
  less than 100 pupils on rolls. 10 of these had to
  undergo the process more than once.
• 8 of the headships were for schools with less
  than 50 pupils on roll.
• In the Spring term 2006 there were 60
  Headteachers in Cornwall over the age of 55.

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Schools Do we have .

• the right number of schools,
• schools in the right places for the communities
  they serve,
• and with the right management and governance,

to provide a 21st century service?
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Schools Working Together we may need to consider

• Co-operation
• Informal partnerships between two or more schools
  with a shared area of interest.
• Collaboration
• Formal partnership between schools where
  governing bodies have contractually agreed to
  work together.
• Federation
• Formal and legal agreement by which up to 5
  schools share a governing body.

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Forms of Collaboration

• Schools working closely together, sharing staff
  and ideas.
• Governors moving towards a more formal
  arrangement.
• Perhaps sharing a Headteacher Executive
  Headship.
• Having either separate or joint Governing Bodies

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Changes to School Organisation?

• Federation
• Amalgamation
• Rationalisation (e.g. joining infant and junior
  schools or split site primaries)
• Closure - always a last resort.

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The LA process

• Discuss the Primary Capital Programme with
  networks and obtain local views on patterns of
  provision.
• Form a working group of members and officers to
  explore the options.
• Investigate demographics across the county and
  possible new patterns of provision.

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Its an opportunity for SKILL

• The LA have asked for responses from the
  partnerships across Cornwall.
• Your chance to influence what happens to
  education in our area.
• Responses to the LA are required by the end of
  December.

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Over to you!!
The Full ECM Primary Capital Programme document
is available from the home page of the SKILL web
site. www.skill.uk.com