Shadow education secretary says 'Building Schools for the Future Programme' would have prevented Raac crisis

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The Shadow Education Secretary criticises government 'transparency' over the RAAC crisis and discusses potential education reforms under Labour with Tom Swarbrick.

asked the Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson: "What would Labour do in the circumstances in which you’ll inherit?"

"We then need to see mitigations in place. I want to make sure children are back learning as quickly as possible."Ms Phillipson then spoke about the disruption schools have faced. She then told Tom about the last Labour government's Building Schools for the Future Programme, which was scrapped by the following Conservative government.

She concluded her point: "Had that happened, we wouldn’t be having the same conversation I’m afraid."'Is it not completely mental?': Tom Swarbrick astonished as schools shut due to crumble-risk concrete before new term "The Conservatives came in, they scrapped it out of hand and then were in a position with those schools years on with this RAAC."It’s right that we focus on efforts on make sure our schools are safe."

 

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