Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 10
10
Accepted
Publish and implement the promised estate strategy to reduce maintenance backlog and replace school buildings.
Recommendation
The Government should publish and implement its promised estate strategy without delay, setting clear milestones for reducing the maintenance backlog and replacing life-expired buildings. (Recommendation, Paragraph 50)
Government Response Summary
The government states that they already published the Education Estates Strategy on 11 February 2026 which sets out clear milestones for implementation and includes detailed milestones in annex A for responsible bodies, schools and colleges.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Recommendation: Accept (already implemented) On 11 February 2026 the Government published the Education Estates Strategy: a decade of national renewal. At the core of the education estates strategy is a shift to more proactive management, long-term strategic maintenance and more renewal of the existing estate. This is alongside continuing to deliver high-quality build and rebuilding projects where they are needed, tackling the worst condition buildings and creating suitable places for children and young people to achieve and thrive. In the short- term we will need to increase capacity in our rebuilding programmes to tackle the backlog of poor condition and life expired buildings whilst also increasing preventative maintenance to slow the flow of buildings becoming life expired. The Strategy sets out clear milestones for implementation and includes detailed milestones in annex A for responsible bodies, schools and colleges.