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News archive - September 2009

Gove attacks high consultancy costs

Gove attacks high consultancy costs

NEWS THAT £170m of the schools new-build and refurbishment budget is being spent on consultants has attracted criticism from Shadow Children’s Secretary Michael Gove.
The Freedom of Information figures obtained by the Conservatives raise fresh concerns, they say, about the efficiency and cost control of the BSF programme. “In tough economic times it is vital that ministers get good value for taxpayers’ money,” Gove stressed. “But under the Government’s bureaucratic school refurbishment scheme, millions has already been spent on consultants with hardly any improvements actually delivered."

Four in ten local authorities are not yet in the programme, say the Conservatives, and many that are have experienced significant delays – over three quarters of the first ‘wave one’ projects.

Thirty-three more schools across England open their doors this September, bringing the total number of schools to have received BSF investment through BSF to 120.

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