Philip Parker, deputy director of capital strategy at the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), said it is down to primary schools and councils to decide how they can improve their buildings.
"The Primary Capital Programme is a national programme delivered locally. There is no national blueprint for rolling it out," he told a Westminster Education Forum event last week. "Schools are owned by local authorities or faith trusts and it's right they take responsibility and decide what they want to do and help deliver that."
He added: "Educationalists, teachers and head teachers need to have a really firm idea of what they want before they start talking to architects."
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