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Bryan Slater Director of Education |
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To: All Headteachers |
The attached document is provided for your information:
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Asset Management Plan: Suitability data |
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Summary of
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Further developments on the availability of Asset Management Plan data. |
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Associated
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EsiNet@ School Management & Governance > Managers and Administrators > School Buildings |
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November 2003 |
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Immediately |
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LEA Contact |
Alan Smith |
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01603 224455 |
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Alan.smith.edu@norfolk.gov.uk |
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Norfolk Self
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5. How well does the school care for its pupils? 7. How well is the school led and managed? 8. How well does the school use its resources? |
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Document
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MI 235-03 |
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Education Department Strategic Core: Planning & Buildings County Hall Martineau Lane Norwich |
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Director of Education: Bryan Slater |
Norfolk NR1 2DL |
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Tel: 01603 222146 |
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Fax: 01603 223838 |
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Minicom: 01603 223833 |
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Email: alan.smith@norfolk.gov.uk |
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Please ask for: |
Mr A Smith |
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SC/AS/LP/01 |
5 November 2003
Dear Colleague
Asset Management Plan: Suitability data
First, I would like to thank you for the positive feedback we have received in relation to the publication of suitability and condition data on EsiNet in July of this year. We believe we are one of the first authorities to make the data available in this way. This is a positive initial step in an ambitious programme that continues with two further developments during the autumn term:
- to allow schools the facility to see all other schools’ Asset Management Plan data, a principle endorsed by the Asset Management Plan Advisory & Consultative Group;
- to allow schools to propose updates to their own Asset Management Plan data which we hope to have complete by the end of this term.
In addition to the above we are in the process of developing a fair and transparent means of ranking condition data in consultation with the Education Capital Priorities Group, which has representatives from schools and governors. See Esinet@ NCC Home > Education Home > School Management & Governance > Managers and Administrators > School Buildings > Asset Management Planning (LEA) > Capital Prioritisation Group for further details.
As indicated in the Management Information sheet MI149-03, the Suitability ranking will be run on a termly basis. On this occasion this process has resulted in significant changes due to the following:
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Asset Management
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- the incorporation of data relating to deficiencies of halls in primary schools and of science & technology spaces in high schools. Deficiencies in relation to other curricular areas will be added to the data over the course of the next 6 months. This is likely to result in further significant changes to the ranking in due course.
- the designation of rooms as teaching or non-teaching has been amended. You can now see the designations on EsiNet.
- the moderation and validation of the data.
We are grateful to those schools that have already contacted us about their data. We would now like to encourage all schools to review their data carefully and to contact Chris Harrison ((01603) 222353 if any obvious significant errors or omissions are identified. However if your data needs updating as a result of building improvements undertaken since the survey for your school was completed, please keep a careful note of such amendments until you can propose them through the revised EsiNet system (see above).
It has not yet been decided how the current AMP data will be used to help allocate central capital funding from 2004 onwards. Options will be considered by the Education Capital Priorities Group & the Asset Management Plan Advisory and Consultative Group over the course of the autumn term. The principles, once agreed, will be made available on EsiNet. However, it should be underlined that the level of available resources centrally will only be sufficient to address a few of the highest priorities. It is therefore important that schools plan to use their Devolved Formula Capital wherever possible to address the worst issues identified in the AMP surveys.
You can view your Asset Management Plan data on EsiNet by clicking on:
» School Management & Governance
» School Management Resources
» Log in with your school’s DfES
No and password
» Click on: School Administration
» Click on: Asset Management Plan
For the full ranking of suitability scores click on your own suitability score.
Yours sincerely
Director of Education