School rebuilding programme - schools that were not selected by the Government
Case reference FOI2023/01471
Published 20 September 2023
Request
I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act. The information concerns the government's school rebuilding programme - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-schools-in-the-programme
- and these schools nominated by the council that were not selected:
Aylestone School
Much Birch CofE Primary School
Peterchurch Primary School
Wellington Primary School and Nursery
Withington Primary School
Please could you provide the funding applications made under the programme for each of these schools. Commercially confidential data can be redacted. Alternatively please provide the maintenance issues and work required and the funding requested for each school without providing the full application.
The council is invited to add details of any of the required maintenance work that was subsequently performed outside the government's school rebuilding programme.
Response
Please could you provide the funding applications made under the programme for each of these schools. Commercially confidential data can be redacted. Alternatively please provide the maintenance issues and work required and the funding requested for each school without providing the full application.
I am advised that no application forms or funding requests were submitted in relation to the above, rather, responsible bodies were invited to nominate school blocks to be considered by the school rebuilding programme via an online portal. The guidance for this is available via the following link:
The council nominated schools based on Department of Education held data, called Condition Collection Data (CDC). These were high level condition surveys the Department of Education conducted in 2018/19 of the national school estate. We put forward school blocks (that does not mean the whole school necessarily) that we thought were the worst based on that data. So, all the council did on the portal was nominate a block. The exception to this was Wellington Primary & Nursery where we also uploaded a structural engineers report for a crack in a wall in the Victorian section of the building.
The council is invited to add details of any of the required maintenance work that was subsequently performed outside the government's school rebuilding programme.
All major maintenance works, over £50,000, are published on the council's website via an officer decision and can be found via the following link:
The data can be filtered on date for the time range that you wish to explore, and by adding the school name in question into the 'title' field.
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