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Details of the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) continue to emerge, but the market keenly awaits greater certainty.
This is particularly the case in relation to the 219 schools that will be privately financed in four batches over the next five years.
Detail remains rather scant on how the privately financed element will work. The programme will be centrally procured by the Department for Education (DfE) and back-to-back arrangements entered into with each school, college or academy, in addition to the owners of the school sites, to deal with the allocation of contract risks.
Stakeholders will have a say in how their school looks, but there will be 'significant constraints' on what they can require.
It may be that DfE will be unwilling to entirely throw the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) baby out with the PSBP bathwater. Risk allocation and principles developed under previous schemes are likely, therefore, to remain of some relevance.
The recent case of R (on the application of A Parent) v Governing Body of XYZ School [2022] EWHC 1146 (Admin) provides some welcome and reassuring guidance to governing boards on the exclusion reconsideration process.
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With 19 HR experts now supporting over 500 schools and trusts across the country, in this edition of 60 seconds we sit down with Emma Hughes, who leads the team, to discuss what this significant milestone means to her.
In order to reduce the risk of potential breaches, schools should follow this Health and Safety Executive guidance.
A ResPublica report highlighted that asbestos continues to be the UK’s number one occupational killer, with nurses and teachers 3 to 5 times more likely to develop mesothelioma than the general UK population. The House of Commons Work & Pensions Select Committee is investigating how the HSE manages the continued presence of asbestos in buildings.
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