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New estate management guide for schools
THE Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and Department for Education (DfE) have published the Good Estate Management for Schools (GEMS) guidance and tools on
GOV.UK. GEMS is a new online resource to
help make sure land and buildings are well managed, support educational objectives and assist in excellent resource management. The resource brings together new and existing
guidance on school estate management, and sets out: • The fundamental policies and procedures needed to manage the school estate effectively
• Guidance on strategic estate management, organisational oversight
• Understanding your land and buildings, energy and water management and managing projects
• Updated guidance on health and safety,
compliance and maintenance (replacing existing guidance in Essential Schools Maintenance)
• The skills organisations need access to, links to tools and resources that can help The guidance is for anyone with
responsibility for overseeing or managing the estate.
www.gov.uk/guidance/good-estate- management-for-schools
Grammar school boost from Hinds
EDUCATION Secretary Damian Hinds has set out plans aimed at expanding grammar schools and creating new free schools. Upto £50m of funding has been
allocated to expand the number of places at existing good or outstanding grammar schools alongside measures to give more disadvantaged pupils the opportunity to attend these schools. The Department for Education estimates that the move should create places for between 3,500 and 4,000 children. Some reports suggested that another £150m will be made available for further expansion in the near future. There is also to be new support for
faith schools where there is demand for good school places, building on the 212,000 places created by free schools since 2010. The Government will retain the 50% cap on faith admissions for free schools but will develop a scheme to help create new voluntary-aided schools for faith and other providers to meet local demand, supported by capital funding. The Education Secretary, pictured
below, said: “By creating new schools where they are needed most and helping all great schools to grow, we can give parents greater choice in looking at
schools that are right for their family – and give children of all backgrounds access to a world-class education.” Jim Skinner, the Grammar School Heads’
Association chief executive, said: “We are very pleased that, like other good and outstanding schools, selective schools now have access to a fund to allow them to expand their premises. This is particularly important at a time when there are increasing numbers of pupils reaching secondary age and such high demand from parents for selective school places.” The purpose of the Selective Schools
Expansion Fund (SSEF) – the name for the grammar school initiative - is to support the expansion of selective schools where:
• There is a need for additional places, both in terms of a shortfall of secondary places in the local area and a demand from parents for more selective places; and
• Schools have ambitious and realistic plans for increasing access for disadvantaged pupils (by which we mean pupils eligible for the pupil premium); and
• They have plans to work with other local schools to increase access for disadvantaged pupils and to raise attainment. All applications for funding must be
submitted by noon on 19 July 2018
www.gov.uk/government/publications/sel ective-schools-expansion-fund
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