Building Schools for the Future

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Building Schools for the Future
Schools Update Nov 06
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• Building Schools for the Future

• A programme to achieve transformational change in
  Educational outcomes
• through raised standards of attainment and
  performance improvement
• Government pledge to provide 21st Century
  facilities for all secondary schools
• DfES targets for BSF
• Educational outcomes
• Extended schools use
• Joined up agenda
• Academies
• ICT agenda
• Energy efficiency
• Minimise disruption
• Constructions standards
• Value for money
• Building Schools for the Future NOT Building
  Schools

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Current BSF National Position

• BSF programme planned over 15 waves to rebuild or
  renew all Englands Secondary Schools over 15
  year period at estimated cost of 45 billion
• Pathfinder projects commenced March 2003, Wave 1
  projects February 2004
• Latest Waves 4-6 announced June 2006
• Academies programme now included within BSF remit
• Authorities in Wave 10 and later to be given a
  one-off funding for single school
• All Wave 1 and 2 LAs in advanced planning stages
  and most Wave 1 in procurement
• Several LAs working towards financial close with
  preferred bidder, Bristol agreed in June 06
• Educational vision guidance and process changed
  in July 2006 now Strategy for Change

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Staffordshires BSF - Bid

• 68 High Schools plus 8 Specials
• Phasing priority but BSF vision must cover all
  districts
• Phase 1 - Cannock, Newcastle, Tamworth
• Phase 2 - East Staffs, Stafford
• Phase 3 - Lichfield, South Staffs, Moorlands
• Total extent of building works
• Rebuild 48 Major Refurb 32 Minor Refurb 12 No
  work 8
• Includes for 24 complete new schools
• Staffordshire start up within programme Waves 7-9
  
• Construction works could commence in 2011 and be
  complete around 2021
• Overall cost of transformation estimated at 750M
  (2011 cost base date)

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BSF - Process

• EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY FOR CHANGE
• PART 1 KEY CHALLENGES/OBJECTIVES
• MINISTERIAL APPROVAL
• STRATEGY FOR CHANGE
• PART 2 DETAIL AND DELIVERY
• DfES AND PfS APPROVAL
• OUTLINE BUSINESS CASE
• DfES, PfS AND PRG APPROVAL
• PROCUREMENT BEGINS
• LOCAL EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
• DELIVERY PARTNER

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Strategy for Change

• Replaces previous Education Vision and Strategic
  Business Case
• First formal component of BSF approvals process
• Designed to capture LAs strategy for 11-19
  education and the requirements that the
  strategy places on the physical school estate
• Coherent investment in support of 14-19 reforms
  formally extended to include all settings in
  which young people learn including Further
  Education
• BSF Programme must ensure that schools transform
  the learning experience and achieve a step change
  in educational outcomes
• LA strategy for BSF must ensure
• A transformed school estate fit for the 21st
  century
• Provision of high quality teaching for all
• Increase diversity of provision to meet parental
  choice and improved educational outcomes
  including Academies
• Schools to be relevant and accessible to local
  communities
• Extensive local collaboration and parental
  involvement

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The Remit for Change

• Information held by the Department on performance
  of schools and the LA will be used to set high
  level BSF strategic objectives
• Aim to provide LAs with locally specific
  objectives and challenges rather than set of
  generic requirements
• Remit will set out Ministerial and Department
  expectations covering
• Strategic objectives such as school
  organisation, diversity of provision, choice
  and fair access
• Targets for school improvement
• Improvements in provision and outcomes related
  to key policy areas
• Delivery, capacity and leadership expectations

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Pre-Procurement BSF Stages

• Strategy for Change Part 1 (the what) key
  challenges/objectives (8 weeks)
• Table/chart of schools
• Strategic overview of provision and proposals
  for change
• Impact on schools and FE estate
• Ministerial approval
• Strategy for Change Part 2 (the how) detail and
  delivery (20 weeks)
• Meeting key challenges and objective
• Addressing key estate priorities
• PfS and Department approval
• Outline Business Case (34 weeks)
• Market-ready project plans and details
• PfS, Department and treasury-chaired Project
  Review Group approval
• Permission to begin procurement

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Key Project Workstreams

• Education Vision
• Estate Property Strategy
• Communications
• Delivery
• ICT Strategy
• Operations and Services
• Value for Money
• Affordability
• School Options
• Individual Schools Vision
• VA Issues

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Education Vision WS 1 (Strategy for Change)

• Synergy with Corporate Vision
• Key Policy Areas
• School organisation - Pupil Place Planning (based
  on 10 yr forecasts)
• Secondary failure and under performance
• Academies
• 14-19 Entitlement
• Special education needs and inclusion
• Childrens Services/Trusts
• Extended schools and community links (community
  use, health, libraries etc)
• School workforce reform, CPD and Change
  Management
• ICT vision
• Specialist school provision
• PE and school sports provision
• Behaviour and attendance
• Healthy schools

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Radical Re-look at Education and Learning
Q What are the educational visions and debates
needed to underpin the design of new
educational institutions? Q What are the
digital resources which may reshape the practice
of learning in the 21st Century? Q What
alternative visions could be conceived for the
schools of the future?
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Management and Organisation

• Guidance on best practice in delivering the BSF
  programme
• Corporate capacity
• Member Leadership
• Project Owner
• Project Director
• Project Board
• Stakeholder Board
• Project Team
• Support network both internal and external
• Project Execution Plan
• Programme Logistics

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Management and Organisation
Authority Cabinet endorse vision and business
cases Challenge CLL Scrutiny make
recommendations to cabinet Organisation
reporting arrangements Project Owner to DMT and
CMT Project Board Project Owner Project
Director Members Senior Finance Senior
Legal SID LSC Headteacher Project Manager 4Ps
Stakeholder Board Project Owner Project
Director Project Manager School
Forum Headteachers Governors Members LSC Other
Agency Partners
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Management and Organisation
Project Team Project Director Project Manager
Technical Project Manager Liaison Admin
Support Reps covering work streams School
organisation School Improvement Property - AMP
Design Procurement Legal Financial ICT HR Externa
l consultant support as necessary
Workstream 1
Workstream 2
Workstream 3
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Consultation and Engagement

• Members
• Headteachers and staff
• Governors
• Dioceses
• Unions
• Pupils
• Parents
• Partnership Agencies - District Councils, Sports
  Partnerships, LSC/Colleges
• Cross directorates/divisions
• Wider Public
• 4Ps
• Agree process and methods for consultation
• Vital that results of engagement feeds into
  development of vision

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September October November
December
July 2007
Countywide Vision Agreed strategy Educationa
l policy in all key areas set out Organisational
model of long term provision Phase One detailed
strategy/delivery plan Affordability
resolved Stakeholders Buy-in Challenges resolved
K E Y D C I S I O N S
PM Technical PM Liaison Admin Support
U N D E R T A K E W O R K S T R E A M S
DfES announcement for Waves 7-9 Prepare documen
tation reflecting Staffordshire's Strategy
for Change and BSF Planning
Appoint Project Owner and Project Director
Set up BSF Team
Cabinet Approval
Secondary Head Forums
COMMUNICATIONS and STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION
Initial BSF planning prior to formal inclusion in
the programme
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Next Steps

• Current
• CMT approval to proceed
• Project Owner and Project Director appointed
• Provision for part upfront costs made
• BSF core team set up (DCD/JSPD/SID/SO)
• Immediate
• Engage Secondary Headteachers
• Identify dedicated resources to develop BSF
  vision and all key workstreams
• Undertake public consultation
• Consider BSF strategic implications within CLL,
  cross council services
• and external partners
• Review secondary provision and consider all
  available choices
• Model various asset planning options
• Plan long term financial strategy affordability
  gap