The Director of Children and Families agreed to:
a) Approve the proposed programme of Planned Maintenance works in maintained and Foundation (Trust) schools to be delivered during 2023/24 and funded from the available Schools Condition Allocation grant provided by the DfE.
b) Authorise expenditure of £4,500,000 of the available Schools Condition Allocation grant on these essential condition works.
c) Approve the proposed procurement strategy, using the in-house Procurement Team, and the use of the internal provider for some work areas and Yortender portal to contractors from Constructionline framework for the remaining programme.
d) Noted that £500,000 of previous year’s School Condition Allocation with pre-existing Authority to Spend is still available to be utilised towards the 2023/24 Capital Maintenance Programme, based on current outturn projections for previous year’s maintenance schemes.