Contact: Peter Colenutt, Joint Strategic Planning Manager,

Telephone: 01962 846157 e-mail: [email protected]

1 Summary

1.1 The following decisions are sought:

a) That the following variations to the 2007/08 capital programme be approved:

(i) Table 15 in the 2007/08 capital programme report showed two of the entries incorrectly transposed. The correct allocations are shown in Table 1 (paragraph 3.1) of this report.

(ii) New Deal for Schools Modernisation (Health & Safety)

- Hot Surface Protection - projects listed in Appendix 1.

- Arson Prevention Scheme - projects listed in Appendix 2.

- Fire Precautions work - projects listed in Appendix 3.

- Sustainability Funding - projects listed in Appendix 4.

(iii) School kitchens - approval is recommended for the projects listed in Appendix 5

(iv) That an additional £0.369m be allocated from the Youth Capital Fund to the major Youth project at Rowner, Gosport.

b) That the following variations to the 2008/09 capital programme be approved:

(i) New Deal for Schools Modernisation (Health & Safety)

- Hot Surface Protection -that £0.100m be approved, with match funding from Policy and Resources. The projects are listed in Appendix 7;

- Arson Protection Strategy - it is recommended that an annual allocation £0.025m, with match funding from Policy and Resources, from the block allocation for NDS be approved;

- Fire Precautions work - it is recommended that £0.100m, with match funding from Policy and Resources, be approved for projects listed in Appendix 8;

(ii) That the proposed day-care project at Waterside Primary School, Hythe be funded from the allocation for provision and improvement of early years and childcare facilities, at an estimated cost of £0.420m.

(iii) Temporary classrooms - approval is recommended for the following projects:

- Calthorpe Park Secondary School, Fleet - It is recommended that approval from the Executive Member for Policy and Resources is sought to submit a planning application for the siting of a double temporary classroom to be sited until August 2013.

2 Reason

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 The decision supports the following Aims of the Children Act:

· Being healthy (enjoying good physical and mental health and living a health lifestyle): through proposals which include the encouragement of walking and cycling to and from school, the provision of health advice through children's centres and co-location with the Health Service;

· Staying safe (being protected from harm and neglect): by creating safe environments in schools, children's centres, children's homes and carers' homes;

· Enjoying and achieving (getting the most out of life and developing the skills for adulthood): by providing a high standard of education and care for children in suitable buildings;

· Making a positive contribution (being involved with the community and society and not engaging in anti-social or offending behaviour): by encouraging the flexible and creative use of accommodation;

· Economic well-being (not being prevented by economic disadvantage from achieving their full potential in life): by ensuring that proposals will not disadvantage children, will protect equality of opportunity and support children from no or low income families to secure skills and qualifications.

3 Other Options considered and rejected:

3.1 None.

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 None.

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

6.1 N/A

Approved by: Date:

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Councillor David Kirk

Executive Lead Member for Children's Services (Education)