This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. In the programme Tim Byles, Chief Executive of Partnerships for Schools, discusses progress of the Building Schools for the Future programme in delivering the Government’s 45bn pounds investment in secondary education.
He reviews the various facets and components of BSF, the experiences of local authorities and schools in the first phase of the programme. 

Councils are getting tougher on people who dump rubbish illegally but they are warning that everyone who lives and works in an area has to play a part in cracking down on the fly tippers. New figures show local authorities have dramatically increased the number of enforcement actions against unlawful tipping.
The figures from the Flycapture database are based on at least 10 monthly returns in the past year from 345 authorities, that’s 97 per cent of all councils. 

Local authorities say Chancellor Alistair Darling’s announcement of an extra 2.6 billion pounds in central government grants to English local authorities over the next three years represents the worst settlement councils have received in the last ten years. The Comprehensive Spending Review foreshadowed a rise in the central grant to almost 26 billion pounds in 2010-11 - a real terms increase of one per cent a year.