School closures due to 'crumbling concrete' ahead of new school year

School closures due to 'crumbling concrete' ahead of new school year

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said she chose to take a “very cautious approach” and close schools just days before the new term after instances over the summer where crumbling concrete had “failed” in settings previously classified as non-critical.br br Speaking for the first time since the schools crisis emerged, she told Sky News on Monday: “What happened over the summer is we had three cases – not in schools, some in schools, some not in schools – and I sent structural engineers out to see them, somewhere in commercial settings, and some in different jurisdictions.br br “And when they went out to see them, they thought there’d been a failure, but it was in a non-critical setting. So that was new evidence and new information…br br “So I decided to take a very cautious approach. And I knew it was going to be difficult because, you know, obviously, for parents, for teachers, this coming so late in August, but that’s when we got the evidence that a panel had failed in a roof that had previously been classified as non-critical.”br br She added: “I wasn’t willing to take the risk. It was just one panel, but it was in a roof that had been assessed as non-critical.


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