Contact: Bob Eardley, Strategic Planning Manager, Children's Services Department. Telephone 01962 846275; email: [email protected]

1 Summary

1.1 The following decisions are sought:

a) That the revised 2007/08 capital programme set out in Appendix 2 be approved and that projects with a value of £12.511m listed in Appendix 1 be carried forward from 2006/07 to 2007/08;

c) That, subject to the approval of the Executive Member for Policy and Resources, the following variations to the 2007/08 capital programme be approved:

ii) a consolidated budget of £21.771m for the provision of Phase 2 of the Children's Centres programme;

iii) an increase of £0.529m in the estimated cost of the major project at The Bridge Education Centre, Eastleigh, to a total of £1.649m;

iv) an increase of £0.316m in the estimated cost of the major project at Marnel Infant and Marnel Junior Schools, Basingstoke, to a total of £3.691m;

v) a contribution of £0.099m to the major project at The Lanterns Children's Centre, Winchester, to be funded initially from the capital programme contingency, pending availability of a capital receipt from the sale of the former Greenacres School, Winchester.

d) that individual allocations for a range of projects, listed in Appendix 4, agreed by the Director of Children's Services be approved;

e) that the Executive Member for Policy and Resources is asked to agree to the reuse of up to 100% of a capital receipt from the sale of surplus land at Roman Way Primary School, Andover as a contribution to a planned major improvement project at the school.

2 Reasons

2.1 The proposals in this report support the Corporate Strategies "Maximising well-being" and Enhancing our quality of place" by proposing allocations of funding to improve the environments of Hampshire schools and children's homes.

2.2 Decisions on the capital programme will support the County Council's corporate priorities, as indicated in the detailed capital programme attached at Appendix 1.

3 Other options considered and rejected

3.1 Not applicable.

4 Conflicts of Interest declared by the decision maker or other Executive Member consulted

4.1 None

5 Dispensation granted by the Standards Committee -

5.1 Not applicable

6 Reason(s) for the matter being dealt with if urgent -

6.1 Not applicable

Approved by: Date: 17 July 2007

Councillor David Kirk

Executive Lead Member for Children's Services (Education)