By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds more school buildings in England might be crumbling and unsafe, Britain's education minister said on ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSLONDON - Hundreds more school buildings in England might be crumbling and unsafe, Britain's education minister said on Monday, after authorities ordered 104 schools to shut buildings with old and weak concrete.
The issue has added to the impression of decaying public infrastructure in Britain, which has faced months of disruptive strikes by workers including in hospitals and schools. The buildings in question contain Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete , a lightweight form of concrete commonly used in walls, floors and ceilings during the 1960s-80s but now considered weak and unsafe."Most of them won't have RAAC," she told BBC Radio."It could be hundreds more."
Heaping more pressure on Sunak, the former top civil servant in the education department said that Sunak, in a previous job as finance minister, had halved annual funding to repair schools, when the department had asked for it to be doubled.
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