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Schools & multi-academy trusts
Local authorities
Housing associations
Central government departments
Demand has outpaced the estate
Public sector estates are being asked to carry more traffic, more devices and more accountability than ever – often on infrastructure specified for a different decade. Four of the findings that drive the report.
Sources listed in full in the report.
The Estate Readiness Gap Model
Five connected gaps.
One resilient estate.
A shared language for triaging investment, a defensible basis for budget conversations and a structured way to sequence work through to 2030. Each gap can be scored – and each one feeds the next if it’s left open.
01
Connectivity
Bandwidth, resilience and quality of service versus what services, staff and users actually need right now.
02
Coverage
Where the estate is well connected and where it isn’t – Wi-Fi dead zones, rural sites, 5G gaps and credible altnet options.
03
Visibility
Actual performance, security posture and usage versus what leadership can see in real time. If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it.
04
Security
Controls, monitoring and response versus CAF v4.0, GovAssure, DfE standards and the threats your estate faces today.
05
Scalability
Today’s capacity envelope versus what it takes to absorb the AI, cloud, IoT and service-redesign roadmap you’ve already committed to.
The report shows how to score each gap, and which to close first.
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Gaps hit services first
The report walks through what infrastructure gaps look like on the ground, sector by sector.
Education
When the network drops, the lesson stops. When safeguarding systems drop, something more serious starts.
Local government
If something breaks across 40 sites on 40 contracts, recovery is only as fast as the weakest link.
Housing
In housing, a connectivity problem soon becomes a missed repair or a repeat visit.
“Infrastructure risk never shows up as ‘infrastructure’ on a line anywhere. It’s overtime, a delayed project, an unplanned spend somewhere else entirely. Once an organisation starts looking for it that way, it starts appearing in places you weren’t expecting.”
“You rarely get one big outage that gives the game away. It’s more a sense that you’ve stopped planning ahead and started just keeping the lights on.”
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A planning tool, not a product pitch.
32 pages of public sector analysis and fully referenced data, with examples from schools, councils and housing – written to help your leadership team agree where the estate stands and what to fix first.
The Estate Readiness Gap Model, explained
A 16-question self-assessment for your leadership team
Three commercial approaches to doing more with less
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