Collapsed ceilings, “flying debris” from damaged roofs and overflowing sewage are some of the reasons behind thousands of emergency school closures since 2018.
A Schools Week investigation found nearly two schools on average close each day because of issues that include faulty buildings, utility failures and floods.
James Bowen, the assistant general secretary at the school leaders’ union NAHT, said: “This enormous figure shows that RAAC is just one symptom of the far wider, and systemic issue of a disintegrating school estate.”
Forty-eight of the 103 councils that responded to a freedom of information request said they kept details of emergency school closures.
