CIF Success

[magpie]

Saw something on the BBC news app that says the Government have approved the lowest amount of successful CIF bids in the whole history of the fund which beggars belief considering the state of most school buildings

[Nail]

Saw something on the BBC news app that says the Government have approved the lowest amount of successful CIF bids in the whole history of the fund which beggars belief considering the state of most school buildings

Not really when you consider all the RAAC work to do. There's not an infinite pot of money.

If they had not sent pictures of the King out however.....

[Chester]

Our bidding process is SCA instead of CIF, I'm in my sixth year here, and this is the first knock back so I can't complain. RAAC and fire seems to have everyone a bit windy this time around.

SCA funding is controlled by your own MAT , 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.

If your school desperately needs funding for something then your HT needs to escalate this to the Board and make a case for it.

[Dunroamin]

Successful with 2 bids here. Going to feel like a long summer break with the projected works. On the plus side, one of the bids means major disruption in some classrooms so that should put off staff being in during the holidays

[Dean 08]

If it’s SCA then it’s your own MAT distributing isn’t it?

I don't know the ins and outs of the process, or how each governing organisation works, but there's a pot that the diocese distributes every year to submitted projects. We have been lucky getting some good improvements done previously, but this year we lost out. The talk in the background this year seems to point to the RAAC issues, and fire safety projects.
We may not have got the bid anyway, but in previous years our proposed project would have been a strong contender.

[nicko]

No good here all of the bids lost