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Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was the name given to the British government's investment programme in secondary school buildings in England in the 2000s. The programme was very ambitious in its costs, timescales and objectives, with politicians from all English political parties supportive of the principle but questioning the wisdom and cost effectiveness of the scheme.〔As well as difficult Parliamentary questions from opposing parties, a critical report was produced by the Education and Skills Select Committee which has a Labour majority with minority Conservative Party and Liberal Democrat participation〕 The delivery of the BSF programme was overseen by Partnerships for Schools (PfS), a non-departmental public body formed through a joint venture between the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) (formerly the Department for Education and Skills), Partnerships UK and private sector partners. Fourteen local education authorities were asked to take part in the Government's first wave of the Building Schools for the Future programme for the fiscal year 2005/6.〔(Building Schools for the Future – Government factsheet )〕 By December 2009 96 Local Authorities had joined the programme. In 2007 the programme was complemented by the announcement of a Primary Capital Programme, with £1.9 billion to spend on 675 building projects for primary schools in England over three years.〔(£21.9 bn to transform classroom and school facilities ) Department for Children, Schools and Families, 10 October 2007〕 On 5 July 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced that following a review, the Building Schools for the Future programme was to be scrapped. BSF projects which had not achieved the status of 'financial close' would not proceed, meaning that 715 school revamps already signed up to the scheme would not go ahead. He also announced that a further 123 academy schemes were to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.〔(School buildings scheme scrapped – BBC website )〕 ==Management== The BSF programme had historically been dogged by sporadic or no management at the top, with Richard Bowker (Chair and Chief Executive of the Strategic Rail Authority) abandoning his post just eight months into the role. However, Bowker was replaced in November 2006 by Tim Byles, who joined from Norfolk County Council, where he had been CEO for 10 years. Byles continues to lead PfS. Initially all local authorities (LAs) had been placed in a national programme consisting of 15 waves. The programme has not been proceeding as rapidly as had been expected and both the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and Partnerships for Schools (PfS) began looking closely at Local Authorities' capacity and readiness to deliver projects. During the Spring of 2008 the DCSF consulted on the management of future waves of BSF and subsequently invited all LAs to submit an Expression of Interest to joint the BSF programme sooner than the original programme might have indicated. The announcement of the new programme arrangements was made on 2 March 2009 and at subsequent briefings to Local Authorities it was made clear by PfS that demonstrable "readiness to deliver" is to be a key condition for future pledges of funding. (BSF Programme ) A tranche of forty local authorities were invited to make a "Readiness to Deliver" submission by 8 May 2009. Of those that did only Hampshire, Barnet, Bolton, Peterborough, Wigan and Sunderland were successful. In early August 2009 the Authorities that had been unsuccessful, as well as the Authorities who had delayed making a submission, were advised that all submissions for the remaining twelve places to be allocated during the financial year ending on 31 March 2010 were to be made by 17 September 2009. On 30 November 2009 it was announced that eleven local authorities – Brent, Darlington, Devon, Havering, Kingston, Croydon, Norfolk, Plymouth, Sefton, Wakefield, and Warrington – will be joining the BSF programme for the first time, with another two – Lancashire and Tameside – starting the next phase of their BSF schemes. Planning and building on these schemes will begin between January and March 2010 and brings the total number of local authorities in England which are active in BSF to 96. The revised management arrangements for BSF apparently reinforced the DCSF's faith in PfS, as the Minister for Schools announced in June 2009 that PfS was to assume responsibility for the management and delivery of all school building and refurbishment programmes. Day-to-day responsibility of all schools capital programmes, including the Primary Capital Programme, transferred from the DCSF to PfS on 1 October 2009. The National Audit Office noted management issues regarding problems in meeting targets, overuse of expensive consultants, and high staff costs (the Chief Executive and top four directors received about £750,000 pa in total).〔"Quango Bosses' Pay: Trebles all round!", Private Eye 1251, 11 December 2009〕〔(The Building Schools for the Future Programme ) National Audit Office 12 February 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Building Schools for the Future」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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