A local school has been included in a list of settings with confirmed collapse prone Raac.
Kids were left to learn in spare classrooms at a neighbouring school for months before moving to the temporary building last summer.
The school was then awarded funding for a new modern building in the government's school rebuilding programme.A message on the school website says: “Since the discovery of this material at St John’s this has become a well-publicised matter of national concern, resulting in the DfE initiating a nationwide survey of its entire school estate to assess the size of the problem facing schools.
“Following the discovery of RAAC at the school, students and staff were moved into a temporary modular school building on the school site.A statement on how we’re addressing Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in schools and colleges 👇
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