Practitioner Note 7 - Capacity to Deliver is the seventh guidance document in a set of nine that form the Local Education Partnerships Toolkit.

Summary

This note focuses on guidance to help ensure effective resourcing of the BSF programme from the outset.

The most effective operational LEPs originate from a well planned pre-procurement stage that was appropriately resourced and recognising that resourcing requirements will change throughout the life of the project

This note dicusses the key elements for effective resourcing.

The key elements of effective resourcing

The following steps are key in developing an effective LEP governance framework:

1. Recognising that it will be around three years before the LEP is operational and that long-term resourcing needs to be built into budgets
2. Providing resources from the local authority, school and LEP to support an effective programme
3. Resourcing will need to be flexible and able to respond to the different stages of the programme
4. Recognising that a BSF project will need a range of resources - existing staff, new appointment and external advisors
5. Where possible using resources with existing BSF experience but good project management and procurement skills from any sector are easily transferable to BSF projects
6. Ensuring the local authority and the LEP are appropriately resourced to deliver the programmes and services required
7. Carefully considering the resourcing for contract management as this requires a different approach to traditional construction contracts

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