Ebook: Good Estate Management (GEM) for schools

Are you unsure how your school or academy could benefit from the GEM guidance?

The Department of Education (DfE) and the Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) have collaboratively put together a guide and toolkit to help schools or academies manage their estates more efficiently and effectively.

Good Estate Management for Schools - A brief guide

Good Estate Management for Schools - A brief guide

This eBook is aimed at anyone working within a school, academy or trust that has responsibility in overseeing their estate and would like to understand a bit more about what the GEM fundamentals are and how they could be used to run their premises more efficiently.

The eBook will cover the following aspects of GEM:

  • Vision and Strategy Setting - To ensure that educational needs and objectives are supported, it’s important to have a clear vision and strategy from the outset.

  • Asset Management and Development Plans - The asset management and development plans are the documents that will set out the actions and processes required to achieve your strategy.

  • Estate Management - The buildings that make up the estate are a valuable long-term asset and such they should well maintained and looked after.

  • Capital Projects - Capital projects are used to help maintain or improve a school or academy assets. They would usually meet the following criteria: a new construction, expansion, renovation or replacement of existing infrastructure.

  • Health, Safety & Compliance - All schools and academies need to ensure that they comply with current health and safety legislation as well as having a duty of care to their pupils and employees using the premises daily.

  • Budgeting Procurement & Performance Management - To support the management of the school or academy there will need to be a series of processes and procedures in place that cover the whole estate.

We hope you find it useful, however if you need any further support please do not hesitate to contact us on 0116 5070130 or email on enquire@s2e.org.uk.

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