Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) Insights

This report examines the 2025–26 Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) results, offering fresh insight into how capital maintenance funding is being distributed—and where the current system could be improved.

With the Department for Education reviewing the future of capital maintenance funding, these insights aim to inform the conversation and support a more transparent, needs-based approach.

Highlights of the CIF Insights Report:

  • A 19% increase in average project costs, driving down the number of successful bids

  • Regional disparities, with London receiving 24% of the funding, while areas like the North East continue to see low success rates

  • The misalignment between condition need and funding, with only 200 of the 1,300 schools in below-average condition receiving support

  • Ongoing limitations of the bid-based model, which fails to provide regular, strategic maintenance funding to the schools that need it most

If you would like to discuss how to prepare for another possible CIF round, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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