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Green light for 152 school projects that were in doubt
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All 152 projects whose future was in doubt after the closure
of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme have been given a lifeline. Last month the projects were
left in limbo after the government cancelled 735 BSF projects and said another 151 (now revised to 152) would need to be reviewed before their future could be decided. Ministers have now announced that all 152 will go ahead. Of the 152 projects, 119 are academies – all-ability, state-funded schools established and managed by sponsors to raise attainment for the most disadvantaged, according to the government’s defi nition. Forty-four of the 119 academies
are at the most advanced stage of planning and will receive their capital now. Education Secretary Michael Gove said capital allocations for the remaining 75 academies will be decided in the
with councils, sponsors and the construction industry to ensure we bear down on costs and
The Leigh Academy in Dartford, Kent. More new schools will be built, say ministers
government’s Comprehensive Spending Review to be announced in October. A further 33 schools among
the reprieved 152 projects are ‘pilot’ BSF projects where wider building programmes were never actually started. Gove added: ‘We will work
bureaucracy so every new school is built in as cost-effective and effi cient a way as possible.’ A spokesperson for the Department of Education said that, in the run-up to the spending review ‘we will be working with these schools to ensure they can proceed most cost-effectively and quickly in the future’. Government is working with companies in the construction industry to reduce costs.
Reports of English Heritage/CABE
merger ‘inaccurate’
The government is ‘unlikely’ to merge English Heritage with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), although it is examining CABE’s future role. The Department for Culture
Media and Sport (DCMS) told the Journal that it was currently reviewing the roles of 50 ‘arm’s length bodies’ in an effort to reduce costs as part of the government’s austerity drive, and has been looking at the possibility of merging both organisations. But the department said it is ‘unlikely’ to bring the two quangos under one roof. A spokesman said that reports suggesting the merger was likely were ‘inaccurate’, adding: ‘We want to take more time over the summer to look not just across DCMS but across government to see where any of CABE’s functions are mirrored and duplicated and how organisations could be streamlined and refocused to deliver better value for money.’
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