Secondary school hit by concrete crisis now ‘one of top on list for rebuild’
Parents at St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham held a demonstration in support of staff as a schools minister visited the site.
Parents at St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham held a demonstration in support of staff as a schools minister visited the site.
Labour says the policy could raise £1.7 billion to invest in state schools.
"Sunak found money for students who go to Winchester and Claremont College, but not for kids whose schools are literally falling down."
The under-fire Education Secretary visited a school in Essex, which is one of the regions worst affected by crumbling concrete.
A coroner has concluded there were individual failings in the support offered to Alex Dews, 13, by his school but did not find ‘systemic failure’.
“The difference is, in this case, the cowboys are running the country," Starmer said.
"It’s scandalous that parents are still in the dark about the dangers posed to their children at school because of Rishi Sunak’s reckless decision to slash budgets"
The Department for Education (DfE) admitted just four schools have been rebuilt so far under plans to overhaul 500 sites by 2030.
"It's hard to express quite how catastrophic this is in terms of disaster communications," said one Twitter user.
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