The government will refurbish or rebuild schools “that need it”, the education secretary pledged today as the ‘crumbly’ concrete school building crisis continues.
But Gillian Keegan revealed 1,500 schools are yet to complete checks to see if they have RAAC – a ‘crumbly’ concrete now liable to collapse. And another 450 schools with suspected RAAC are still waiting for an official assessment from a government engineer.
However Keegan, speaking to the BBC this morning, said a full list of affected schools would be published this week.
She was speaking after an explosive intervention from the former permanent secretary of the Department for Education, Jonathan Slater. He accused Keegan’s government of prioritising free schools over political safety and slashing school rebuilding funds.
