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It's being reported on the BBC that the government had been warned about crumbling schools but Sunak went ahead and halved the school's repairs budget in 2021.

Taken from the BBC:

Rishi Sunak was already under pressure to take charge of the crumbling concrete problem and ensure repairs are made as fast as possible.

Now, thanks to an unusually direct intervention from a retired civil servant, Sunak faces an even more complex problem: showing he is on top of the issue while also defending his actions in the past.

The accusations made by Jonathan Slater, who ran the Department for Education for four years until mid-2020, are very serious.

He said he had warned the Treasury there was “a critical risk to life” if it did not fund the repairs programme - but at a 2021 spending review, when Sunak was chancellor, the number of schools given money for repairs was halved.
 
This goes back to a school ceiling collapse in 2008 where a report was issued.

Our hospital has had to have modular theatres for the past year while the roof was replaced.
 
It will be interesting to see te next round of opinion polls. Sunak has to take a thumping over this. PMQ's may be entertaining on Wednesday.
 
Heads seriously need to roll over this, as people who have children in the education system it makes me not want to to send them until this is rectified.

God forbid any child or teacher suffers injury over this obscenity.
 
ThePrisoner said:
I think the tory poll is about as low as it can go. There are still millions who care not a jot about anything than themselves and will always vote tory no matter what.
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You have to suspect that some of those still supporting the tories have kids of school age though. I will be surprised if this doesn't effect the polling, not withstanding keegans comments caught on camera.
 
Laughing said:
You have to suspect that some of those still supporting the tories have kids of school age though. I will be surprised if this doesn't effect the polling, not withstanding keegans comments caught on camera.
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They will blame it on Labour councils, immigrants, the wokerati or the conjunction of the planets. Anything but reality.
 
Laughing said:
You have to suspect that some of those still supporting the tories have kids of school age though. I will be surprised if this doesn't effect the polling, not withstanding keegans comments caught on camera.
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I'm confident little Tarquin and Chlamydia won't be at a school where a concrete roof will fall on their heads during Latin/gymkhana. The schools charity status makes sure buildings are tip top and don't look like they should be in Bakhmut. 🙄
 
h_m_boro said:
I'm confident little Tarquin and Chlamydia won't be at a school where a concrete roof will fall on their heads during Latin/gymkhana. The schools charity status makes sure buildings are tip top and don't look like they should be in Bakhmut. 🙄
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Most tory voters dont send their kids to private school.
 
Was talking about this earlier with family and some mentioned is the reason the ‘list’ is being withheld in case any of the buildings are targeted?
 
If these buildings were built in the 1950s, 60s and 70s with a maximum life of 30 to 40 years - they should have all been replaced by 2020 some by 2000. No wonder many are collapsing.

Most head teachers and teachers were not born when the building went up, no wonder they are struggling to fill in the questionnaires. I remember in the 1960s loads of new secondary schools were built on Teesside and they went up very quickly - there were loads of kids about. Lots of older terraced housing was getting pulled down and young families moved onto the new housing estates on greenfield sites. School leaving age moved from 15 to 16 too in 1972? I guess these blocks were cheap, light to handle and quick to make. opposed to using teams of experienced brick layers.
 
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