{"id":95171,"date":"2021-06-23T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=95171"},"modified":"2021-06-24T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T07:37:13","slug":"government-invests-483m-to-improve-school-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/government-invests-483m-to-improve-school-buildings\/95171\/","title":{"rendered":"Government invests \u00a3483m to improve school buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Schools across the country are set to receive \u00a3483m from the Condition Improvement Fund as the government &#8220;builds back better&#8221; from the pandemic<\/h2>\n<p>Local authorities, larger multi-academy trusts and Voluntary Aided school bodies were allocated condition funding earlier this year in accordance with the latest data on their estates.<\/p>\n<h3>Essential upgrades<\/h3>\n<p>Smaller academy trusts and sixth form colleges submitted bids to the Department for funding through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/condition-improvement-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Condition Improvement Fund<\/a> process, for essential maintenance and upgrades and the most pressing 1,199 projects have today been allocated funding.<\/p>\n<p>Of the \u00a3483m, \u00a393m will go to 273 schools in the North East and North West.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will improve classrooms, create more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/sustainable-schools-concept-to-reality\/93106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">energy-efficient buildings<\/a> and reduce energy bills for schools &#8211; helping the government to meet its net-zero target.<\/p>\n<h3>Refurbs &amp; rebuilds<\/h3>\n<p>Site inspections and detailed planning work are already underway and construction of the first projects will begin in autumn 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/school-rebuilding-programme\/78329\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School Rebuilding<\/a> Programme &#8211; supported by \u00a31bn in funding &#8211; announced last year is also on track, with the first 50 schools confirmed in February.<\/p>\n<p>A further 50 projects, ranging from refurbishing individual buildings through to whole school rebuilds, will be confirmed later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Schools minister Baroness Berridge said: &#8220;Alongside our ambitious rebuilding programme for schools over the next decade, this government is making sure children learn in the best possible environments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Providing every school with the financial support it needs to build back better for its students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">&#8220;Schools are the centres of our communities and both pupils and staff need to have up-to-date classrooms to learn and work in, that\u2019s why the government is spending \u00a31.8bn this year alone to improve school buildings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools across the country are set to receive \u00a3483m from the Condition Improvement Fund as the government builds back better from the pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[594,3649,430,276],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building-design","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-government"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Government invests \u00a3483m to improve school buildings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Schools across the country are set to receive \u00a3483 million from the Condition Improvement Fund as the Government builds back better from the pandemic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/government-invests-483m-to-improve-school-buildings\/95171\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government invests \u00a3483m to improve school buildings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Schools across the country are set to receive \u00a3483 million from the Condition Improvement Fund as the Government builds back better from the pandemic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/government-invests-483m-to-improve-school-buildings\/95171\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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