Leaders will be issued with guidance on selling-off surplus school land in a bid to “unlock potential in the education estate” and fund vital rebuilds.
LocatED, the Department for Education’s property company, is set to publish the advice in the coming weeks, as Schools Week analysis shows land disposals have fallen to a four-year low.
The government-backed firm also hopes to roll-out building projects that will see rundown inner-city schools operate within newly constructed blocks of flats.
But Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: “We’ve surely reached the bottom of the funding barrel when schools are being advised to sell off land in order to pay for capital projects.”
