Labour has accused ministers of 'shrugging their shoulders' in response to the crumbling concrete crisis that has caused more than 100 schools to close buildings.
Labour has accused ministers of "shrugging their shoulders" in response to the crumbling concrete crisis that has caused more than 100 schools to close buildings.The opposition said its MPs had made more than 180 warnings about the outdated reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in schools since last summer. There are fears that ceilings made of the material could collapse in some schools.
It became a serious issue after a roof at a primary school in Gravesend, Kent, collapsed on a weekend after signs of structural stress the day before. School building owners were then asked to check about Raac in their sites.The government says it has sent out questionnaires asking schools if they believed they had Raac in their buildings and carried out surveys to check.
Bridget Phillipson, Labour's shadow education secretary, said: "Time and again Labour warned about the risks posed by crumbling school buildings but Tory Ministers just shrugged their shoulders."The first act of the Conservative government in 2010 was to axe Labour's schools rebuilding programme, then Rishi Sunak as Chancellor doubled down, further cutting the budgets by nearly half - and now the chickens have come home to roost.
The Raac crisis itself was sidetracked on Monday by Ms Keegan, who complained about not being thanked for doing a "good f*****g job".later in the day who Ms Keegan was referring to, schools minister Nick Gibb said she was frustrated about a lack of acknowledgement of hard-working civil servants. "We’ve had 95 per cent of the responses back from the responsible bodies…but we’ve not had five per cent. And it’s that she is frustrated about," he said.Iain Dale disputes ITV's decision to publish Gillian Keegan interview
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