Building Schools for the Future (BSF) represents a new approach to capital investment. It is bringing together significant investment in buildings and in ICT (Information and Communications Technology) over the coming years to support the Government’s educational reform agenda.

The Government is committed to devolve significant funds – about £3 billion in 2005-06 – to local authorities (LA’s) and schools to spend on maintaining and improving their school buildings. But it also wants to promote a step-change in the quality of provision. That is the focus of Building Schools for the Future (BSF).

BSF – worth £2.2 billion in its first year (2005-6) – aims to ensure that secondary pupils learn in 21st-century facilities. Investment will be rolled out to every part of England over 15 waves, subject to future public spending decisions.

• By 2011, every LA in England will have received funding to renew at least the school in greatest need – many will have major rebuilding and remodelling projects (at least three schools) underway through BSF and the remainder will have received resources through the Academies programme or Targeted Capital Fund.
• By 2016, major rebuilding and remodelling projects (at least three schools) will have started in every LA.

This replacement secondary school at Bideford College is Devon’s One School Pathfinder (OSF) project, and is seen as a pilot project so the Authority has the relevant experience necessary when the investment for the remaining schools is announced in future funding waves.

To view the current status of the project please click on this link for the College webcams: - www.bideford.devon.sch.uk/newschool/web_cam.html

Also on devon.gov.uk

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