education estates strategy schools forum presentation 13 february 2013
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EDUCATION ESTATES STRATEGY
Schools Forum Presentation
13 February 2013
The remit of the education estates strategy is to make entrepreneurial proposals to bring investment into the education estate. It builds and draws on work in 2011 on developing a needs analysis.
This involves a range of approaches from seeking alternative funding sources such as DSG on an invest to save basis from Schools’ Forum, to property development opportunities by rationalising accommodation.
The ongoing challenge of meeting basic need, including for special education, requires new approaches as the availability of land and the extent of the Capital Programme will not meet the future demand.
This presentation covers:-Proposed objectives, scope and timetable for the work-Examples of data showing demands on the education estate-Examples of the proposed alternative funding approaches for debate
Milestones-Capital Programme Board November and February-Schools’ Forum December and February
Education Estates Strategy – Executive Summary
The Education Estates Strategy will set out proposals as to what land and buildings are proposed to be used where and when to meet the emerging demands on the Education Estate. This may require investment in order to achieve.It will set out proposals in respect of the following elements:•Mainstream primary •Mainstream secondary and post 16 •Special Education Needs•CSS•ACL
The Education Estates Strategy is supported by two further papers:•Alternative Funding Strategy – ‘getting more’•Procurement Strategy – ‘getting more for less’
In the Spring a series of specific business cases are proposed to be put forward for consideration which apply the Alternative Funding and Procurement Reports to the demands identified. e.g. By rationalising the CSS estate in the South by co-locating all pupils to a newly built facility on to the Fairview site, will the disposal values of the Hadleigh and Langdon Hills generate enough capital to support this new build?
Education Estates Strategy – What is it?
• To create adequate capacity in the estate to meet Essex’s statutory responsibility to provide places for school age children.
• To provide learning settings that are in good condition and fit for purpose.
• To secure as much land as possible for use by ECC in order to meet future demands.
• To secure alternative funding sources from the government, third and private sectors to invest in the education estate.
• To create capacity of the right sort of SEN provision to reduce out-County placements and failure at defending tribunals and duty to provide to 25.
• To improve and rationalise the CSS estate.
• To extend diversity, eg offer world class performing arts provision
• To reduce the NEETs by providing adult community learning for those with disabilities
Objectives of the EES – Why?
Strategic Business Case for EES programme (SEN/CSS/School Organisation requirements defined by others at same time) by November 2012
•Procurement Report - How can you get more buildings for your money? - A review of procurement and delivery opportunities e.g. off-site construction.•Alternative Funding Report - What alternative funding streams might be available? What are the strings attached to each? E.g. - invest to save business case to schools’ forum - development for alternative uses of existing sites - Cornerstone model of development - Free Schools - Social investment bonds - Schools Priority Building Programme
Outline Business Cases for specific projects to be completed between January 13 and March 13
Full Business Cases for specific projects to be completed between March 13 and June 13
Timeline of the EES – When?
2011 2016 2021
Capital investment inSEN + CSS + Maintenance
Education Capital Investment Strategy
Capital Investment inMainstream Expansion
Key FactorsAcademisation & Free schools +Historical provision imbalance +
Invest to save possibilities + Relatively static pupil population +
Falling revenue fundingKey Factors
Significant pupil growthMature National Policies on Academies
and Free Schools
Key outcomesRevenue savings +
Reduced maintenance liability + Better outcomes for most vulnerable children
Key outcomesMeeting statutory demand for places
North East
Mid
South
WestNorth EastColchesterTendring
MidBraintreeChelmsfordMaldon
SouthBasildonBrentwoodCastle PointRochford
WestEpping ForestHarlowUttlesford
Provision organisation is undertaken in three layers over different time horizons
Area District Planning Area (up to 15 per district)
Special Schools+ Post 16 + CSS provision
Secondary Schools + Special SRP
Primary Schools + Early Years
School organisation areas
Demand by District – Primary and secondary capacity up to 2034 by district (forms of entry)
Red means more places requiredGreen means less places requiredAmber means no material change
District Primary Secondary
Up to 2016 Up to 2021 Up to 2034 Up to 2016 Up to 2021 Up to 2034
Mid 2 -2 -10 7 -6 -13
Braintree 0 -1 -4 5 -1 0
Chelmsford 0 -1 -6 0 -6 -13
Maldon 2 0 0 2 1 0
North East -7 -16 -28 4 -11 -33
Colchester -7 -15 -24 0 -12 -30
Tendring 0 -1 -4 4 1 -3
South 1 -3 -10 12 1 -15
Basildon -1 -3 -7 4 0 -6
Brentwood 0 -2 -5 0 -4 -12
Castle Point 0 2 2 4 4 3
Rochford 2 0 0 4 1 0
West 5 5 3 4 -7 -9
Epping Forest 3 3 3 4 1 2
Harlow 0 0 0 0 -6 -5
Uttlesford 2 2 0 0 -2 -6
County 1 -16 -45 27 -23 -70
North East
Mid
South
West
CLD6) Kingswode Hoe, 7) Market Field, SCLD8) Shorefields, 9) Lexden SpringsBESD – No primary10) Ramsden Hall (secondary)
CLD1)ThriftwoodSCLD2) Edith Borthwick, 3) ColombusBESD – No Primary4) Ramsden Hall (Secondary)PD5) Southview
CLD11) Castledon, 12) Cedar Hall, 13) EndeavourSCLD14) Pioneer, 15) GlenwoodBESD – None
CLD - NoneSCLD16) Harlow Fields, 17) Oak ViewBESD – No secondary18) Wells Park
SEN Primary and Secondary Schools – Existing Provision Map
SLCN – Speech Language and Communication Needs SpLD – Specific Learning DifficultiesHI – Hearing impaired ASD – Autistic Spectrum Disorder PD – Physically DisabledCLD – Complex Learning Difficulties SCLD – Severe and Complex Learning DifficultiesBESD – Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties
6 7
8
910
1
2
3
4
5
1112
13
14 151817
16
North East
Mid
South
West
Primary
Secondary
32
347
Size of arrows are indicative of numbers
40
1
45
124
7
245
11
10
3
There is no BESD provision in this area
SEN Primary and Secondary Schools– BESD Pupil migration map
North East
Mid
South
West
Primary2) CSS Centre Wivenhoe
Secondary3) CSS Centre, Colchester, Mile End4) CSS Centre Clacton5) CSS Centre Copford
PrimaryNone
Secondary1) CSS Centre HeybridgeAll age
6) CSS Centre Langdon HillsSecondary7) CSS Centre Hadleigh8) CSS Centre Fairview Basildon
PrimaryNone
Secondary9) CSS Centre Commonside 10) CSS Centre Tany’s Dell
CSS Primary and Secondary Provision – Existing Provision Map
1
2
4
3
5
6
7
8
109
Invest to Save Business Case on DSG to Schools Forum
•Does ASHE support the production of business cases to support a bid to Schools Forum to build new SEN provision within Essex, rather than sending children out County at higher cost to DSG?
•This is only suitable when there is evidence of a growing demand for special school places of a specific type and currently there are children with those needs in out County placements – such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD).
•Would require ECC Capital Programme to loan the money to fund the construction in advance of DSG paying back the capital required.
•If new SEN provision is constructed within Essex, pupils may not have to travel so far to school and so RSG funded transport should be cheaper. The business case would also model the saving to RSG.
•If you do nothing the costs to DSG will continue to rise, this approach won’t reduce costs but will mitigate the increase in costs.
Views Sought from Schools Forum
ECC – Developer Activities•What is your view of proposing business cases that test whether through the rationalisation of the use of sites, investment in new facilities might be funded? We acknowledge that from an ECC perspective no capital receipt can be ring-fenced for a specific purpose.
E.g. CSS accommodation North East. Currently they operate across Green Lodge, Clacton, Wivenhoe, Mile End and Copford (leased). All accommodation is dilapidated and (except Copford) is not fit for purpose. Ideally all provision could be co-located on the Mile End site if there were capital to invest in new
accommodation and refurbishment of existing accommodation.
•Co-locating primary provisions on secondary sites to create all-through schools.
•Co-locating schools with CSS, ACL and other Council services.
•Undertake business case to test the benefit of moving Special Schools to less valuable sites e.g. Wells Park, Kingswode Hoe?
•Local Asset Backed Vehicles
Views Sought from Schools Forum
Other areas considered
•Social Investment Bonds
•Free Schools
•Schools contributing to maintenance fund (£10k cap currently)
•When a school being replaced completely, schools contributing DFC to project
•Priority Schools Building Programme
•Supporting academies to seek funding directly from central government
•Lobbying for grant funding
Views Sought from Schools Forum
Cornerstone Model
•Cornerstone was set up by Tim Byles (formerly CE of Partnerships for Schools and Norfolk CC) to offer a social dividend to Local Authorities through sharing development profits with them arising from developing Council owned land.
•The deal is structured around a land deal only and so is exempt from public procurement rules. ECC’s usual supply chain arrangements would construct any new facilities required.
•E.g. Could offer Cornerstone the two CSS proposals for the North East and the South. There is a lot of community use at Wivenhoe, could this be retained in a new community facility there as part of the Cornerstone social dividend?
•Cornerstone have development expertise and capacity and a supply chain which are offered at no cost to the authority during the development of schemes. They take their payment from the development profit after development completed.
Views Sought from Schools Forum