RAAC schools had been due for renewal under scrapped Labour plan

By Tom Lowe2023-09-06T10:38:00

Plans to renew 13 schools hit by RAAC crisis were shelved in 2010

At least 13 schools affected by the failing concrete crisis were included in the school rebuilding programme scrapped by Michael Gove in 2010.

School buildings told to close because they were found to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete had been due for rebuild under Labour’s £55bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, according to the BBC.

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