There are hundreds of schools identified as potentially being at risk that have not undergone any checks at all for RAAC.
A report by the National Audit Office published in June revealed that the Department for Education had issued a questionnaire to every school it believed hadAccording to the NAO, the survey was issued to some 14,900 schools built between 1930 and 1990 and potentially containing the crumble-risk material, but as of May only 86 per cent of those schools had responded to the questionnaire, meaning officials had no information on 2,086 at-risk schools.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb admitted that more schools could be told they need to shut classrooms because they contain RAAC, with more questionnaires to come back and more detailed surveys to be carried out over the next week.just 156 of the tens of thousands of schools that have so far responded to the questionnaire have been forced to undergo mitigation work
Officials believe that pupils who have to temporarily move to remote education, in an echo of Covid lockdowns, will be back in classrooms very quickly. Mr Gibb insisted pupils and parents should not be apprehensive about the risk during the wait for the results.“That’s a very cautious approach, so parents can be confident that if they’ve not been contacted by their school it is safe to send children back into school.”
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