They’re all coming out from under stones – justifying / defending their decision.
Current repeated claim – seems to be – ‘there were three different collapses in July, in buildings not defined as ‘critical’. and we had to react quickly’.
Quickly? Just three days notice– some schools, just one day – before the start of the new term.
and,
Why wait for the third collapse?
and
Rishi Sunak says –
“It is utterly wrong to blame me for the government’s failure to fix crumbling concrete in England’s schools.”
following an accusation -which he denied – that he approved cuts to rebuilding programs when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Fact – he cut the promised School Rebuilding Programme –
– to build or renovate, 100 new schools per year to 50 per year –
In fact – 400 units had been identified as needing urgent attention –
I have found it impossible to find any official figures on how many have actually had the work done – and I am an experienced online researcher.
And – would you believe – they are turning on each other!
As reported in my previous post – Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, has, in a live TV broadcast, referring to other Parliamentary colleagues i.e. Conservatives – “as everyone else has sat on their arses and done nothing.”
and – leave it to Labour –
Labour’s Ben Bradshaw implies Sunak would have taken the RAAC problem more seriously if his children attended state schools.