The government's aim to renew buildings using private finance is proving complex and hard to manage

By Martin Wainwright and Polly Curtis, The Guardian

There is growing disquiet over Building Schools for the Future, the 45bn pound programme to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school and half of all primaries in England by 2020. Targets have been missed, and last week Tim Byles, the chief executive of Partnerships for Schools, the body set up to run BSF, admitted plans were "overambitious and not deliverable".

But perhaps BSF is not the whole story. The Department for Education and Skills insists BSF is just part of its capital investment programme for schools, and schools minister Andrew Adonis pointed to "over 100 other private finance schemes [that] have been signed, covering 832 schools".

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Posted by pichu at January 23, 2007 10:49 AM