Presented by Lindsay Martin and Keith Hutt

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Service Property Priorities 2006 - 2007 for
schools

• Presented by Lindsay Martin and Keith Hutt

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Service direction - long short term aims
objectives
The key outcomes set out in Every Child Matters
in the Children Act (2004) are

• Being healthy Staying safe
  Enjoying and achieving
• Making a positive contribution
  Achieving economic wellbeing

As an excellent authority, ensure that all our
children are in excellent properties to
contribute to

• Raising the achievement and life chances of
  children and young people in Hertfordshire
• Safeguarding children and young people and
  reducing the need to take into care developing
  integrated and preventative practice
• Enabling children and young people to participate
  and engage with their learning, care, families
  and communities so as to realise their potential
  and life chances
• Improving the wellbeing and life chances of
  children and young people through supporting
  families and communities

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Service direction - long short term aims and
objectives

• Ensure that no buildings have to be closed for
  health safety, other legislative or basic
  amenity reasons
• Develop the asset management planning process to
  ensure the quality of data and its interrogation
  improves year on year in order to increase the
  resources available to CSF, target them
  effectively and drive the implementation of
  spending programmes
• Using AMP data as the starting point, set out an
  investment programme to bring the fabric of all
  schools to an acceptable standard
• Create new schools built to high standards of
  design within area and cost guidelines and within
  streamlined development and procurement processes

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Service direction - long short term aims and
objectives

• Develop a shared vision of Schools for the Future
• Create benchmarks for well-designed schools
• Push forward the boundaries of innovation and
  inspiration
• Support the delivery of Building Schools for the
  Future
• Work with key property partners to develop new
  ways of delivering school buildings
• All early years settings in Hertfordshire are
  overall amber or green
• Implement an ongoing review of the provision of
  school places in the primary and secondary phases
  to meet demographic change, to ensure effective
  use of resources and enable all schools to
  maintain the capacity to improve
• Prepare for the property implications of the 2006
  Education Bill

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Big property issues

• Ensuring schools exist in the right number, of
  the preferred size, and in the right locations
  (20 surplus places currently in primary schools)
• Too many properties at or near the end of their
  planned life (over 300 built in the 1960s and
  1970s)
• Permanent provision is still provided in too many
  temporary buildings (currently almost 250
  temporary buildings on school sites)
• Accommodation for special schools remains
  unsuitable
• In many secondary schools specialist provision
  such as food technology and science needs to be
  modernised to meet current needs

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Big property issues

• Implementation of the strategy to develop Key
  Stage 4 centres and more appropriate Key Stage 3
  Education Support Centre accommodation
• Gearing up to staffing and financial challenges
  to enable a rapid response to the anticipated
  availability of Building Schools for the Future
  funding
• Development of standardised accommodation briefs
  and room / space schedules for new schools
• Development of 50 Childrens Centres by 2008 and
  82 by 2010 to ensure early education provision is
  available for all children aged 3 and 4, for 15
  hours per week over 3 to 5 days, 48 weeks per
  year (6 Centres open at present)
• Extended school provision by 2008 for all
  children between 3 and 14, with all schools open
  from 8am to 6pm for 48 weeks a year

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Big property issues

• Meeting changing statutory requirements e.g.
  Buildings Regulations Parts E (Resistance to
  passage of sound), Part F (Ventilation), Part L
  (Conservation of fuel power in buildings other
  than dwellings), Part M (Access to use of
  buildings)
• Providing accommodation, fit for 21st century
  requirements, that is inspirational flexible
  sustainable energy efficient, community
  friendly adaptable accessible for people with
  disabilities safe and secure construction
  efficient
• Provision of high quality data and guidance on
  property maintenance to school managers

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State of schools
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Meeting Property Plan target 1
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Broad areas of priority for action

• Programme of area reviews to rationalise
  accommodation and maximise levels of usage
• Meeting basic need (ensuring sufficient places
  are available in the right schools)
• Replacement of temporary premises where
  appropriate
• Relocation of some Education Support Centres
  e.g. The Links, St Albans
• Modernisation of science laboratories and food
  technology provision
• Remodelling of open plan classrooms in primary
  schools
• Creation of Key Stage 4 learning centres

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Broad areas of priority for action

• Repairs and maintenance programme priorities
  kitchens, boilers, roofs
• Responding to legislative changes e.g.
  Accessibility programme, kitchen ventilation
  upgrades
• Gearing up for Building Schools For the Future
• Improving staff and administrative accommodation
  in response to workforce remodelling
• Successful integration and enhancement of
  property data within HCC
• Provision of high quality guidance on property
  maintenance

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Property Matters website on Hertsdirect
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School site plans online
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School floor plans online
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Condition survey data online
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Net capacity online analysis
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Supporting and collaborating with schools
Devolved Formula Capital spending
Business continuity planning
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GIS data online
Primary
Secondary
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Maintenance monitoring
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Online suitability survey
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Accommodation schedules for new schools
Room / space schedules for new schools
Room data sheets
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Significant actions for individual properties
capital programme 2006-07
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Significant actions for individual properties
capital programme 2006-07
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Significant actions for individual properties R
M
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Funding issues

• Significant funding shortfall to overcome RM
  backlog
• How to respond to the challenge of CLASP / SEAC
  buildings beyond their planned life
• Extended schools
• Building Schools for the Future
• Sustainability- initial higher capital costs but
  savings in ongoing revenue, plus environmental
  benefits
• Developing accommodation schedules and room data
  sheets (based on national and HCC standards) to
  allocate funding for new and refurbished schools
• Working within an environment where increasing
  devolution of property related funding goes
  directly to schools
• Town planning consent is causing delays which
  increase costs for some schemes

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Summary conclusions

• Building Schools for the Future provides huge
  potential but also huge challenges
• There is a major backlog of R M work
• There is a challenge to deliver sustainability
  but retain cost-effectiveness
• There is a great deal more to do to deliver
  targets on developing Childrens Centres and
  extended school provision
• Anticipating appropriate responses to the new
  Education Bill proposals
• Area reviews bring opportunities for change, but
  considerable challenges
• The context of organisational change including
  property centralisation
• Ensuring premises are appropriate to 21st century
  standards and educational needs

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Service Property Priorities 2005 - 2006for
schools
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