Teaching unions have written to the education secretary demanding an apology for her ‘insulting’ and ‘unacceptable’ remarks that ‘some schools need to get off their backsides’ in the RAAC crisis.
The NAHT and ASCL have jointly written to Gillian Keegan expressing their members’ dismay at the comment she made on the Jeremy Vine show yesterday (5 September) when discussing RAAC concrete.
Keegan told presenter Jeremy Vine that ‘there’s 5 per cent of schools or responsible bodies that have not responded to the survey, now hopefully all this publicity will make them get off their backsides’.
The unions say they have been ‘overwhelmed with complaints’ from their members, and that the minister’s words ‘lack precision and professionalism’.
