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Building Schools for the Future (BSF)
Building Schools for the Future was launched in February 2003. BSF is a very large national investment programme, aimed at educational transformation, through providing all secondary school pupils and teachers in England with 21st century buildings and facilities which support innovative teaching and learning and the aims of the Children's Plan.
The Government awarded the delivery of the BSF programme to a private public partnership known as Partnership for Schools (PfS). PfS have published clear objectives and expectations for the programme. Through this it is expected that the investment will enable 50 per cent of the secondary schools to be rebuilt, 30 per cent to be remodelled and 20 per cent to be refurbished. The investment has been rolled out across the country in waves and Plymouth had been judged as a wave 15 Authority, which meant that the bulk of capital funding would not be awarded to Plymouth until after 2016.
The Department for Children's Services began to shape the secondary strategy with visioning workshops and consultation events in the spring of 2007. An education consultant also began working with an Assistant Director and the project team to develop the strategy.
In September 2008, the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) invited all authorities which had not started in a BSF wave to propose an initial priority project with a capital value of up to £80 million and follow-on projects. In November 2008, Plymouth submitted an Expression of Interest (EoI) outling our transformational vision for secondary education and proposals to move forward in the investment programme.
On 2 March 2009, the DCSF announced an indicative prioritisation of the revised national programme for BSF. Plymouth was ranked top of the list for initial projects. However, before projects can be started, Plymouth needs to demonstrate its 'readiness to deliver'. This is a Gateway into the BSF programme and forms an essential element of the pre initiation phase and the journey towards the later key milestones set out by PfS