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Some schools in England will have to relocate teaching until safety measures can be put in place.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Schools in England must immediately shut buildings made with a type of concrete that is prone to collapse unless safety measures are in place, the government has said.

Safety measures include propping up ceilings in buildings made with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).

The Department for Education (DfE) has not given a timeline for replacing the RAAC, but school leaders have called for an "urgent plan" to fix buildings.

A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) in June assessed the risk of injury or death from a school building collapse as "very likely and critical".

It highlighted concerns for school buildings that still contained RAAC - a lightweight form of concrete prone to collapse, used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s.

"The plan we have set out will minimise the impact on pupil learning and provide schools with the right funding and support they need to put mitigations in place to deal with RAAC".


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