School Condition Allocations (SCA)
Securing Funding for School Improvements
Securing School Infrastructure: Navigating DfE Funding Programs
The Department for Education (DfE) allocates funding each year to help maintain and improve the condition of school buildings and grounds.
In any given financial year, eligible schools can access funding through either:
School condition allocations (SCA), with funds paid to eligible bodies responsible for maintaining school buildings.
The condition improvement fund (CIF), a bidding round with funds paid directly to single academy trusts, small multi-academy trusts (MATs), small voluntary aided (VA) bodies and sixth-form colleges
Who is eligible for this type of funding?
These grants are intended to be used to improve the condition of school buildings. School condition funding provides for:
- local authorities and local-authority-maintained schools, including maintained nursery schools
- local voluntary-aided bodies and voluntary-aided schools
- academies and large multi-academy trusts (MATs)
- sixth-form colleges
- special schools not maintained by the local authority
- special post-16 institutions with eligible students
Schools are either part of bodies eligible for a School Condition Allocation (SCA) or eligible for CIF, depending on their size and type.
What can we spend our school condition allocation on?
These allocations must be spent on capital expenditure. To ensure funding is spent on the correct things the DfE advises that you seek local professional advice from experienced consultants such as Stratus9. The DfE themselves cannot provide advice on what counts as capital expenditure.
SCA allocations are intended to support the condition of school buildings. Local authorities, larger MATs and larger VA school bodies receive direct SCA to invest in priorities across the schools for which they are responsible.
How can Stratus9 help you?
Over many years of working within the education sector we have gathered a vast amount of experience in identifying, prioritising and delivering SCA funded projects. You can benefit from our experience by appointing us to help identify and define prioritised programmes of works to address backlog maintenance and other capital projects across your schools to specifically target your Trust aims and objectives.
Our approach ensures works are carefully planned and considered, are future proof and fit the evolving needs of the school and Multi Academy Trust.
Our team have successfully delivered hundreds of successful projects in educational establishments from inception to completion and we pride ourselves on delivering on time and within budget.
We have experience of working with buildings old and new whether historic or unusual which provides confidence that there is little we are unable to advise on. Our wide-ranging skill set within the education sector and beyond mean that we have unique knowledge and experience that sets us apart from the competition which would be of great benefit to you.
As highly skilled Building Surveyors working in education our core business is the design and delivery of construction projects in schools. Our track record is second to none with the successful delivery of hundreds of construction projects completed to high standards.
Our surveyors follow the guidance and standards as laid out by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) at all stages of the project providing a high standard of service promoting trust in us as your professionals.
If you need a trusted professional team to help you produce strategies for capital projects and subsequently design and deliver those projects please look no further than Stratus9 Consulting.
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