Funding for the maintenance of schoolsFunding for the maintenance of schools
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Request 782220161
School premises funding and assessment of needs.
Please provide a breakdown of funding provided to both fee paying and non fee paying schools over the past 10 years for building maintenance and improvements.
Response
The information provided is for the closed financial years of 2015-2024.
Responsibility for maintaining and improving Government of Jersey school buildings is split between the Infrastructure and Environment Department and the Department of Children, Young People, Education and Skills (CYPES).
CYPES is responsible for minor projects funded via the CYPES capital programme and for delivering the Tenant's obligations in respect of maintenance CYPES delegates a part of its gross revenue budget to schools who determine how much to spend on their buildings. Schools are free to prioritise spend on their buildings as they see fit.
CYPES additionally has discrete capital funds for named projects determined each year by the States Assembly in the annual budget. These documents are published on the government website: https://www.gov.je/Government/PlanningPerformance/GovernmentProgramme/GovernmentPlan/Pages/GovernmentPlan2022to2025.aspx
CYPES Revenue
CYPES are able to provide spend in revenue budgets, rather than funding provided, over the last 10 years for building maintenance and improvements for both fee paying and non-fee-paying Government of Jersey schools.
Please see below a table providing the breakdown of CYPES spend in revenue budgets in the previous 10 closed financial years. This includes expenditure coded to buildings maintenance and minor works.
| Financial Year | Fee-paying Provided Schools | Non-Fee Paying Provided Schools |
| 2015 | £867,786 | £901,070 |
| 2016 | £899,189 | £949,577 |
| 2017 | £968,880 | £918,620 |
| 2018 | £974,573 | £938,498 |
| 2019 | £853,462 | £855,351 |
| 2020 | £930,454 | £785,176 |
| 2021 | £1,051,899 | £1,017,591 |
| 2022 | £984,545 | £1,666,794 |
| 2023 | £562,624 | £1,463,144 |
| 2024 | £658,471 | £3,012,311 |
Note: The spike in spending on non-fee-paying schools in 2024 relates mainly to the creation of serveries in primary schools to deliver School Meals.
CYPES Capital
The following is the extract taken from the CYPES capital programmes that can be identified in 2023 and 2024 against the school categories.
We are unable to split between categories of school prior to 2023 due to the coding conventions adopted in the previous financial systems. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied. Combined totals have been provided instead.
| Financial Year | Fee-paying Provided Schools | Non-Fee Paying Provided Schools |
| 2015 | £558,833
|
| 2016 | £929,101
|
| 2017 | £1,174,134
|
| 2018 | £1,404,256
|
| 2019 | £1,807,306
|
| 2020 | £2,583,135
|
| 2021 | £2,817,575
|
| 2022 | £3,827,412
|
| 2023 | £36,885 | £3,086,990 |
| 2024 | £289,153 | £2,234,824 |
Note: The vast majority in 2023 spend on non fee-paying schools was for the extension to Mont a L'Abbe.
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