Recommendation 12

HM Government Accepted

Recommendation: Accept The Education Estates Strategy sets out how the government will go further on data and digital transformation to enable responsible bodies to use data and digital services to manage their estate effectively, and to provide both the department and responsible bodies better insights on the estate so that collectively we can make informed decisions on what interventions are needed. This builds on the consistent and high-quality data collected through the Condition Data Collection Programme. The first Condition Data Collection (CDC1) programme ran from 2017 to 2019, and covered government funded schools in England. A summary of the CDC1 data can be accessed in the CDC1 key findings report here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/condition- data-collection-2-cdc2-programme. Individual reports were shared with schools and the full set of data is presented at school or regional level in the House of Commons library here: https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/ depositedpaper/2285521/files. The Condition Data Collection 2 (CDC2) will provide an update on the condition of the government funded school and FE college buildings. This will be completed later this year. Going forward, we will support responsible bodies to collect data on their estates and adopt digital tools and solutions, with the ambition for all responsible bodies to be collecting and sharing data by 2029–30. We will start pilots in 2026–27 to test the approach of responsible bodies collecting their own data and using digital tools in line with common standards before national rollout planned from autumn 2027. We will publish common data and digital structures, standards and guides from April 2026 to help responsible bodies collect and commission data and digital services that meet a common minimum standard so that data is consistent and comparable across the whole estate. We will introduce two-way data sharing by 2028 providing both responsible bodies and the department better insights on the estate. The government provides updates on delivery progress for programmes, including permanently removing RAAC from schools and colleges and for the School Rebuilding Programme. The most recent update was included in the Education Estates Strategy published on 11 February 2026 which set out that RAAC has been permanently removed from 71 schools and colleges, and that 51 schools have been rebuilt through the School Rebuilding Programme with well over half of those in the current pipeline in delivery.