18 Bristol used the experience from a previous school PFI project to implement BSF. It was invited to take advantage of the BSF programme ahead of other Local Authorities partly because it already had a clear estate strategy in place and experience in building new schools. However, Bristol has suffered a lack of continuation and capacity within the Local Authority team, with key members of staff leaving immediately after it established the LEP.
19 School leaders are highly committed to BSF, but told us that they sometimes felt ill equipped to manage the more technical issues.