Decision Maker: Director of People
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
At the request of Schools Forum, the
Department for Education / Secretary of State gave permission to
establish a central Schools Block DSG expenditure budget of
£1,000,000 to focus on two areas:-
• Access;
• Safeguarding.
The budget is provided to deliver learning environment improvements
within Schools, Academies, PRUs and Learning Centres and it is
expected that a 10% contribution will be required towards any
project based on the estimate provided. It is intended that the
funding will be allocated over a 3 year period with a full review
and progression report supplied to School Forum in July 2018.
Schools Forum delegated responsibility for administering the funds
through the School Organisation Board and the initial requests were
considered on 9 November 2017. The Board discussed each application
on a case by case basis following recommendations from Construction
Services and the School Organisation Service. The approved bids
were felt to meet the defined criteria of the Safeguarding and
Access fund and were as such approved under these conditions.
Additional conditions were also placed including that fencing
should be installed at the accepted height of 1.8 metres due to
planning regulations, unless specific need can be evidenced
otherwise.
a) To Approve the Safeguarding and Access
capital allocations which were approved by the Learning Provision
Organisation Board (LPOB), (identified within the attached
ODR);
b) In addition to the above funding allocations the Board accepted
the recommendations to approve urgent works following safeguarding
and access concerns as identified with the attached ODR; and
c) To note The applications (identified with the ODR) were rejected
due to being deemed as requested to enhance current provision or to
address security issues rather than specific safeguarding
solutions.
Option 1 - Do nothing – This would put
the safety of Doncaster children at risk.
Option 2 - Approve all applications – This would remove the
focus of a limited fund from the highest priority cases.
Option 3 - Agree the decisions of the Board – To focus on the
highest priority need and not fund applications where only
enhancements would be gained to existing systems.
Publication date: 11/07/2018
Date of decision: 30/11/2017
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