The Essex schools Raac repair programme halted in 2012
Education / Tue 19th Sep 2023 at 07:37am
A “MONEY SAVING” programme to remediate Essex schools affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was dropped in 2012, it has been claimed reports the BBC.
People involved in the project said budget cuts were to blame.
More than a third of the 147 schools identified as having Raac in England are in Essex.
Essex County Council said it had addressed problems at the worst affected schools by 2006 and that many became academies since then.
The BBC has seen invoices and Freedom of Information Act disclosures showing how a number of the council’s schools back in the early 2000s had their Raac roofs reinforced by a company called Metsec.
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Tony Edwards
2023-09-19 21:16:47
BBC Quote "Essex asked for additional funds from the government, but that was not forthcoming, so they could not continue with the Raac [maintenance] programme." The schools maintenance budget was slashed by two-thirds in 2012 "due to the reduced level of capital grant received from the Department for Education" according to council papers".
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