Building our future
Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a government scheme that will see in excess of £350m invested in Hull’s schools. The Plan provides details of the transformation to learning that will be delivered through BSF.
The funding is an investment in Hull’s school buildings which will ensure we have new facilities across the City aimed at transforming teaching and learning in Hull. Although buildings are important, so is good teaching, classroom discipline and a strong school ethos which makes sure the right subjects are being taught. To get this right we are committed to the continuous improvement of learning NOW for all children.
The plan is to have the first future school open by September 2011, with all other secondary schools improved and modernised by September 2013 and all schools in the programme completed by September 2014. As a result:
- There will be a real difference and improvement for every child
- All future schools will offer first class standards
- Schools across the City will work together to help each other to improve
- Primary, secondary and post-16 education will be increasingly seamless
- High quality teachers will want to stay and come to teach in Hull
- Every child will have improved life opportunities
The programme will largely be delivered through a new Public Private Partnership (or Local Education Partnership – LEP) due to be established in early 2010. The LEP will be responsible for an exciting programme of physical and social regeneration capable of creating new opportunities for future generations of children and young people in Hull.
As well as four schools being built pre-LEP, there will be 19 schools developed through the LEP, including 5 Private Finance Initiatives (PFI), 7 New Build schemes and 12 Design and Build projects. In addition the LEP will be expected to deliver Hard Facilities Management (with the potential to extend to Soft Facilities Management) services and a single Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Management Service across the school estate.
Partnership working will remain at the heart of how Hull, together with the newly formed LEP, will deliver excellence, quality, cost-effectiveness and innovation to truly transform learning.
Councillor Rick Welton
Cabinet Portfolio Holder Regeneration & Housing Strategy
Nigel Richardson
Director of Children & Young People’s
….. on behalf of the Learning Partnership and Stakeholders.
