School chiefs told to ‘get off their backsides’ and fill out concrete survey

The Education Secretary has told school chiefs who have not responded to a survey about crumbling concrete to “get off their backsides” and inform the Government if they are affected.

The Education Secretary, who railed against those who had “sat on their arse and done nothing” in a sweary outburst on Monday, said 5% of schools, or the bodies responsible for them, had still not responded to a questionnaire sent out by the Department for Education about Raac on their sites. Her comments came after more than 100 schools in England were told by the Government to fully or partially close at the start of term because of the presence of collapse-risk concrete in their buildings.

“Schools have been expected to identify Raac even though this is a specialist field and are unlikely to have staff who are experts in this area.

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