Mario Creatura, Parliamentary Candidate for Croydon Central, has welcomed £5,398,542.61 from the Conservative Government for maintaining and improving school buildings in Croydon.
This year, £1.4 billion will be invested in maintaining and improving school buildings across the country so children get off to the best start in buildings fit for purpose for the future.
The cash boost includes over £430 million to carry out essential maintenance projects at over 1,200 schools and £780 million for councils and education trusts to invest in maintaining and renewing their schools.
Mario has welcomed money from the £433 million Condition Improvement Fund for two schools in Croydon Central - Good Shepherd Primary in New Addington and St Mary’s Infants in the town centre. This funding will provide support for essential maintenance, security and safeguarding.
Since 2015, this Fund alone has allocated nearly £2 billion for over 6,000 projects at more than 3,000 schools all over the country.
This announcement means the Conservatives have spent £7.4 billion on school buildings since 2015.
Commenting, Mario said:
‘Schools in Croydon more than just buildings, they are the centres of our community.
‘The £5.4 million from the Conservative Government for school buildings this year will make sure our schools are in the best condition for children in Croydon to learn the knowledge and skills they will use for the rest of their lives.
‘Today’s funding will also target those schools with some of the most urgent need, making sure children in Croydon never spend time in buildings that aren’t fit for purpose.’
- Spending £1.4 billion this financial year on school buildings so that our children learn the skills they need in schools with the to get on in life in the best possible conditions. Schools in England will benefit from investment of over £1.4 billion in buildings and facilities over the coming financial year (DfE, News story, 4 April 2019, link).
- This money will support projects improving the conditions of school buildings:
- Almost £800 million for local authorities, voluntary aided partnerships, larger multi-academy trusts and academy sponsors, to invest in maintaining and improving the condition of their schools;
- £433 million for the Condition Improvement Fund, which will cover 1,413 projects at 1,210 small and stand-alone academy trusts and sixth-form colleges;
- Over £200 million of Devolved Formula Capital allocated for schools to spend on small capital projects to meet their own priorities (DfE, News story, 4 April 2019, link).
- Bringing the total amount we have spent on school capital projects to over £7.4 billion since 2015 so all schools can maintain and renew their facilities. This investment goes towards as providing the resources for all schools to maintain and renew their facilities and helping those schools with some of the most urgent need (DfE, News Story, 4 April 2019, link).
- The Conservatives have created 921,000 more school places meaning more families have the choice of a good local school place for their child. We are on track to deliver an extra one million school places nationwide in the decade to 2020 - reversing a cut of 100,000 school places between 2004 and 2010 under Labour (DfE, News Story, 28 March 2019, link).
- Under the Conservatives there are 3,641 more good and outstanding schools meaning more children learning the skills and knowledge they need to get on in life. The proportion of children at good and outstanding schools is now 85 per cent, up from 68 per cent under Labour in 2010 (DfE, News Story, 28 March 2019, link).
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