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FUNDING FOR SCHOOL KITCHENS OUTSIDE OF PCP - the Government is providing a national fund of £100million that local authorities can bid for to improve kitchens in schools, with the requirement of 50% match funding

 

 

Meeting: 30/11/2009 - Cabinet - for meetings after 09/05/11, please see 'City Mayor & Cabinet' (Item 112)

112 PROPOSAL FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO KITCHENS AND DINING FACILITIES IN SEVERAL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS pdf icon PDF 111 KB

Councillor Dempster submits a report which requests approval for the addition of kitchen and dining refurbishment projects to the Capital Programme. Cabinet is asked to approve the recommendations set out in Paragraph 3 of the report.

 

A minute extract from the meeting of the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Committee held on 26 November 2009 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Minutes:

Councillor Dempster submitted a report that requested approval for the addition of kitchen and dining refurbishment projects to the Capital Programme.  Councillor Dempster explained that funding in excess of £3m had been received from the Government, which would allow the City Council to continue to improve school kitchens and dining facilities, to enable a better uptake of school meals.

 

It was noted that the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee had considered the report at its meeting on 26 November and had noted the report and endorsed the recommendations for Cabinet. The Committee had also requested that a report be submitted to them on the condition of kitchens and dining rooms in schools across the City, and Councillor Dempster confirmed that this report would be submitted as requested.

 

RESOLVED:

                        that Cabinet authorises:

 

1.      The proposed capital kitchen improvement works and approves the addition of schemes relating to Block C of the Council’s Capital Programme detailed within paragraph 4.9 and Table 3 of the report.

 

2.      Approves the release of the £0.5m of funding within Block C of the Children and Young People’s Services capital programme, approved by Cabinet and Council in March 2009.

 

3.      Approves the addition of the additional associated funding to the Capital Programme – being £2.58m of Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) grant; £1.125 of Building Schools for the Future (BSF) match funding; and £0.205m to be contributed by schools from their Devolved Formula Capital allocations; and

 

4.      Notes that a further report will be brought concerning the scheme(s) to be funded from the remaining DCSF grant of £0.0688m.