Primary Capital Programme

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• Primary Capital Programme
• Update
• Peter Connell, DCSF

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Content

• Reminder of Programme Objectives
• The Assessment Process
• General Feedback on Assessment
• Planned Outputs
• Next Steps

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More than Just a Building Programme

• Joined-up capital investment supporting
  transformation
• Driving infrastructure changes needed to deliver
  Childrens Plan
• Renewing at least half of primary schools by
• 2022-23
• Schools equipped for 21st Century learning, at
  heart of community with childrens services in
  reach of every family

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Pathfinders

• 23 Pathfinders
• Barnet, Birmingham, Bradford, Cornwall,
  Darlington, Ealing, Essex, Hampshire,
  Hertfordshire, Kent, Knowsley, Manchester,
  Newham, North Tyneside, Nottingham City,
  Rotherham, Sheffield, Solihull, Somerset,
  Swindon, Torbay, Waltham Forest, Wigan.
• 3 core objectives
• test systems ahead of national roll out
• deliver high quality exemplars in each region to
  be completed by September 2009
• build capacity and share good practice regionally

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Funding

• Part of 21.9 billion capital investment over CSR
  
• Supported by 1.9 billion of new investment
• Baseline 500m a year after that subject to
  future Government spending decisions
• 7bn of additional investment by 2022-23
• Expect LAs to commit to joining up with other
  funding
• PCP funding to supplement existing primary
  capital, not to replace it for diversion elsewhere

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The Primary Strategy for Change

• Funding conditional on approval to PSfC.
• Must
• consider needs of all primary schools
• address the 5 core elements in the guidance
• demonstrate local consultation
• commit to joining up funding
• be endorsed by Council, dioceses and majority of
  schools

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The Assessment Process

• PSfCs submitted in June have now been through a
  thorough assessment.
• The assessment framework was based on December
  guidance
• Took account of Government policies on school
  commissioning, raising standards, SEN, extended
  schools, healthy schools, role of ICT in the
  support of learning, leadership and capacity to
  deliver.
• initial assessments
• quality assured and then
• moderated
• Ministerial decisions shortly.

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Assessment Outcomes

• All LAs to be placed in one of 3 categories
• Category 1 - Approved. Meets all of the core
  requirements set out in the guidance. We will
  confirm PCP funding for 2009-10 and 2010-11
  enabling the LA to plan and procure initial
  projects.
• Category 2 - Approved with modification.
  Generally sound - but with some critical
  weaknesses. We will confirm PCP funding for
  2009-10 but continued funding will be dependent
  upon confirmation by a specified date that these
  have been addressed.
• Category 3 Not approved. Assessed as having
  significant omissions or areas of weakness. The
  LA will be asked to resubmit by a specified date.
  We will not confirm funding until a satisfactory
  strategy is in place.

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General Feedback

• Many excellent strategies that give confidence
  that strategic aims will be delivered
• But - significant variation in quality
• Typically issues which weakened individual plans
  were
• Key omissions in the baseline analysis, with a
  tendency to describe rather than analyse.
• A failure to make explicit links between the
  analysis and the investment programme aims
• A failure to convince in respect of the capacity
  to deliver the required transformational change.

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Over 1500 projects
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Planned Outputs 2008-11

• Increased impact through joining up funding.
  1.9 billion programme supporting capital
  investment of 3.7 billion
• New Services - 130 new childrens centres 550
  schools delivering new extended services 500
  schools delivering new services for the community
  
• Deprivation About a third of projects in one
  of the 20 most deprived areas
• Standards About a fifth of projects at schools
  identified as performing below floor targets
• Condition More than a fifth of projects at
  schools identified as being among the worst 5 in
  terms of physical condition
• Impact on Surplus Places LAs planning to take
  47,588 places out of use but create 56,088
  additional places. Further analysis required!

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New Facilities
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Going Forward

• LAs to be advised of assessment outcomes shortly.
  
• Decision letters to include feedback on
  strengths and weaknesses
• On-line resources, guidance and case study
  materials to support local delivery
• Targeted support where needed for authorities to
  improve and strengthen their strategies.
• Re-submission and re-assessment of strategies
  where necessary. January 2009 or earlier
• Funding available from April 2009
• Finalise arrangements for monitoring of outputs
  (and outcomes) feeding into next Spending review.