Building Schools for the Future

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Building Schools for the Future
Andrew Robertson, Deputy Chief
Executive, Partnerships for Schools
October 2006
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Building Schools for the Future

• BSF objectives
• Partnerships for Schools
• Project progress
• What is BSF really about?
• Final thoughts

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Building Schools for the Future (BSF)

• Launched in 2004
• 15-year programme of strategic capital investment
  in Englands secondary schools
• Approx. 45,000,000,000 over lifetime of
  programme
• Uses both private finance and conventional
  funding
• Covers building and ICT provision
• Subject to future public spending decisions
• To transform education delivery in England

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BSF objectives

• All of Englands secondary schools to 21st
  Century standards
• 3,534 secondary schools
• 3,300,000 pupils
• Enabling maximum impact on education
• transforming learning and teaching environments
• high quality sustainable design
• integrated ICT virtual learning platforms
• changing the learning experience

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Why is BSF needed?

• Age of schools estate
• gt 80 of schools gt 20 years old
• 28 built before WW2
• Historic lack of investment
• 1996-7 680,000,000
• 2007-8 6,400,000,000
• Need for strategic investment
• BSF moves from patch and mend to rebuild
  and renew
• Estate-wide procurement brings efficiencies
  of scale
• Using ICT to change the way we deliver learning
• Workforce reform
• Virtual Learning Environments

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Why is BSF needed?
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The State of the Estate
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And when we do build new
Recently-completed PFI schools
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And when we do build new (2)
Recently completed PFI schools - landscaping
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Greater aspirations
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Partnerships for Schools (PfS)

• PfS is the national delivery vehicle for BSF,
  responsible for
• National programme management and efficiencies
• Supporting transformation in education delivery
• Delivery model and standardisation
• Providing support and guidance to local
  authorities
• Knowledge management
• Investment
• Joint venture between Department for Education
  and Skills (DfES) and Partnerships UK (PUK)

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Progress Projects (1)

• 38 Local Authorities (LAs) in the programme in
  waves 1 to 3
• of 150 total across England
• prioritised according to need (GCSE results and
  free school meals)
• 33 more LAs preparing for waves 4 to 6
• 17 wave 1-3 LAs also in waves 4-6 with subsequent
  phases of work
• Wave 4 will be announced December 2006
• 37 Education Visions signed off
• LAs must demonstrate transformational education
  plans
• Education Bill, Every Child Matters, 14-19 Agenda
• Whole secondary school estate is considered at
  once faith schools, Academies, Special
  Educational Needs (SEN)

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Progress Projects (2)

• 10 projects at Preferred Bidder stage
• Bradford, Lancashire, Greenwich, Newcastle,
  Sheffield, Leicester, Stoke, Waltham Forest,
  Solihull and Manchester
• Over 1,200,000,000 committed to projects at
  preferred bidder stage
• Bristol has reached financial close and formed
  the first Local Education Partnership (LEP)
• First school on target to open September 2007
• PfS took on delivery of Academies Programme in
  March 2006
• helping DfES achieve target of 200 Academies
  built or in pipeline by 2010
• through LEP or national design-and-build
  framework

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What is BSF really about?

• A unique opportunity
• Building schools
• Re-building communities
• Extended schools
• Joined-up funding
• Transforming learning environments
• Creating new opportunities
• motivated learners, motivated teachers, confident
  parents, better inclusion
• Creating new virtual and physical workplaces at
  the same time
• Providing the opportunity for choice

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Transforming education creating choice

• Strategy for Change (SfC) LAs must demonstrate
  how they will address the Governments education
  reforms
• Diversity, choice and access
• Underperforming schools / Academies
• Personalised learning / ICT
• 14-19 Curriculum including FE
• Integrated services / Every Child Matters
• Extended schools
• Inclusion / Special Educational Needs (SEN)
• Change Management
• SfC replaces education vision and strategic
  business case for waves 4 onwards

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ICT and BSF

• Enhanced teaching spaces
• AV equipment, interactive tools
• Personalised learning
• at pace of student, e-learning, online libraries
• learner-led teaching
• Mobile technology
• wireless access
• learning platform accessible from school, home or
  library
• Security, access control (Smart buildings)
• Integrated administration
• Reservoirs of data across local authorities
• Burden of ICT support and services removed from
  schools

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BSF enabling choice

• Choice of school
• Detailed pupil place planning supports better
  estate planning
• Expansion of successful / popular schools in line
  with government policy
• Choice of the local school
• BSF will raise standards, make schools safer and
  more accessible
• Pupils and parents will feel more confident about
  choosing the local school
• Choice of learning style
• Different learning spaces plus ICT investment
  will enable schools to better match provision to
  individual learning needs

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BSF enabling choice

• Choice of curriculum
• Strategically planned specialist provision (in
  collaboration with local LSC)
• New 14-19 specialised diplomas
• Choice of additional service provision
• BSF will create schools that are local community
  hubs
• Powerful catalyst for bringing together other
  funding to provide a range of extended services
  (such as health, housing advice, police, benefits)

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Summary

• BSF is a 15-year strategic capital investment
  programme
• 3,500 schools delivered through 150 local
  authorities
• 2,200,000,000 per annum of capital investment
• Real political commitment
• Enables maximum impact on educational
  transformation
• PfS is the national delivery vehicle for BSF
• Local Education Partnership
• joint venture between LA, PfS and private sector
  partner
• better and faster procurement
• Transforming education, providing choice and
  delivering 21st Century standards in secondary
  schools across England