Basingstoke’s Cranbourne School will receive a share of a £456 million pot created to help refurbish and repair school buildings.
Maria Miller MP for Basingstoke said, “I want all schools and colleges in Basingstoke to be ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ and that includes the buildings that children are taught in.
I welcome the additional £456 million investment into our school buildings across the country, equalling to over 1,000 building improvement projects, which includes Cranbourne School in Basingstoke.”
“School budgets for England are rising to £56.8billion by 2024/25, £7billion more funding compared to 2021/22, with over £13 billion since 2015 to maintain and improve school facilities across England, including £1.8 billion for the 2023-24 financial year.”
Basingstoke residents know what this investment means, as we have seen the expansion of more than six primary schools; creating more new school places, the building of a brand-new school the Austen Academy for children with Special Educational Needs, and Basingstoke College of Technology, receiving £150 000 direct funding from the Department for Education to build a new Green Energy Technology Centre.”
More than 85% of our local schools are rated by Ofsted as Good or Outstanding. Coppice Spring and Ashwood School will be moving to the new Academy Trust, providing a further opportunity to work with the Department for Education to secure further funding for schools that support some of the most vulnerable families in our Borough.
"It is really important that we celebrate the success of our schools in Basingstoke, a real change that has happened in the past 10 years and I will continue to work together with Schools, HCC & DfE to tell the success story that is Basingstoke schools.”
