Schools minister Nick Gibb insisted that parents should not be concerned about sending their children back to the classroom
104 of these require urgent action to ensure the safety of their buildings, withSchools minister Nick Gibb admitted on Friday that more schools may be affected by the presence of RAAC.
“We are putting large amounts of capital into the school estate to improve the condition and, by the way, RAAC applies only in the period [between] the 1950s and the 1990s, so schools built or extended before that period or afterwards – which is about half the school estate – will not even need to consider whether they have RAAC,” he told GB News.
He added that DfE had been working on “surveys and evidence-gathering since 2022” but conceded that “there could be more” school buildings foundHowever, Mr Gibb insisted parents should not worry about sending their children back to school. “Parents will be informed by the school. We were speaking to schools yesterday, some more today, and then schools are telling parents what action they are taking,” he said.
He added: “We now are taking a cautious approach. It is a very cautious approach based on a number of cases that emerged over the summer.” The official DfE advice, Mr Gibb said, was that buildings or rooms containing RAAC should be “taken out of use”.
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