The Department for Education (DfE) allocates funding each year to help maintain and improve the condition of school buildings and grounds. In any given financial year, eligible MATs can access funding through SCA, with funds paid for maintaining school buildings.
School condition funding is provided to Multi-Academy Trusts and VA bodies, but they must have met both eligibility criteria:
- The Trust or VA body must have had 5 or more open schools at the start of September.
- Those open schools (or their predecessor schools), must have had at least 3,000 pupils counted in the spring.