Ministers have given an “assurance” that academy trusts and councils deemed by the government not to have filled in their RAAC questionnaire “will not be named publicly”, a sector leader has said in correspondence seen by Schools Week.
The government has also agreed to “seek expert advice” about “grave concern” that visual inspections of schools may not be “sufficient in relation to concealed RAAC”.
Schools Week reported earlier this week that the accuracy of the government’s RAAC school data has been thrown into doubt after responsible bodies were wrongly told they had failed to complete surveys for the dangerous material.
The questionnaire – and the supposed failure of around 5 per cent of schools to complete it since it launched last March – has become a central plank to the government’s defence of its handling of the crumbly concrete crisis.
