The government won’t confirm its deadline to rid every school of crumbly RAAC until the new year, Gillian Keegan has said.
The education secretary said she would not give a “definitive date” until mitigations to make every school safe were complete.
Ministers and officials have scrambled to respond to the growing crumbly concrete crisis in schools since changing guidance just days before the beginning of the autumn term.
An updated list published this morning shows the presence of the concrete has been confirmed at 231 schools and colleges.
