What can school condition allocation be spent on

What is School Condition Allocation funding?

School Condition Allocation (SCA) is a capital funding grant for multi-academy trusts (MATs) with more than five academies and 3000 students. The funding is based on the number of students in your trust and is a guaranteed source of income for your MAT every year. It can help you maintain your buildings and grounds and pay for any issues that need addressing. 

How can you use SCA Funding?

Guidance from the Department for Education states that the School Condition Allocation should be used to ‘maintain and improve the condition of school buildings so children can learn in a safe and effective environment’.

More specifically, it sets out four areas that the funding can be used to address, including:

• Poor building condition
• Building compliance
• Energy efficiency
• Health and safety issues

With that broad remit, you can use SCA funding for a wide range of works associated with maintaining your school buildings and grounds. You could carry out priority maintenance work, make changes to ensure your compliance with energy efficiency legislation or carry out work that improves the condition of your buildings and keeps them in good working order.

How to plan how you spend SCA funding

To determine how best to spend your School Condition Allocation, each MAT should determine its priorities for its academies, whether it’s capital refurbishment and repairs, minor works or improvements to buildings and other facilities, such as IT. If you have any doubts about what you can spend your School Condition Allocation on, we can help. 

How to create a school maintenance programme

Working as your strategic premises partner, we can help you deploy your School Condition Allocation across your estate to best meet the needs of your buildings and grounds. We do this by prioritising your maintenance issues and your future demands to create a comprehensive and achievable maintenance programme.

We can:

• Develop a property maintenance and expansion strategy on your behalf
• Conduct building condition surveys to get a detailed understanding of the physical, mechanical and electrical condition of your school buildings, systems and external areas
• Provide a prioritised and fully costed list of maintenance projects
• Help you manage your short, medium and long-term defect priorities alongside your new building ambitions
• Manage and administer your maintenance projects

Get in touch using the form below to find out how our fully qualified RICS-accredited surveyors can support your multi-academy trust and help you make the most of your SCA funding.