2008 Management Review of the School Estate approved by Education Executive
Tuesday, June 3 2008
Scottish Borders Council’s Education Executive today approved the outcome and recommendations of the 2008 Management Review of the school estate. The Executive also called on the Scottish Government to clarify how they intend to provide funding for much needed future capital projects.
Speaking after the Council meeting, Councillor Catriona Bhatia said: “This is an impressive body of work that has collated a huge wealth of information on our schools, analysed the data on a wholly consistent basis and provided a priority list that will be used to guide strategic investment.
“It builds and considerably improves on the work of the initial management review in 2003. Since the initial review we have, or are in the course of providing, improvements to 13 out of the top 20 investment priorities. This latest review will enable us to continue our commitment to providing much better facilities for our pupils, staff and parents.
“This administration will spend more than £100m on new and improved schools by 2012 but we need further investment. This review highlights that even after this investment, and excluding schools in the current programme, 31 of our primary schools and three of our high schools are in a ‘poor’ condition and need investment. What we need now is clarity from the Scottish Government on a robust replacement for PPP.”
The output of the 2007/08 Review will be incorporated into a new School Estate Management Plan (SEMP) by 31 March 2009. Every authority in Scotland is required to produce a SEMP and submit this to the Scottish Government.”
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