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RAAC: DfE lists 174 schools now affected

Government reveals 27 more schools have had RAAC identified in their buildings

Feature: The RAAC school that moved into Georgian wedding venue

14-hour days, classroom tables in gazebos and scout huts: the inside story of dealing with crumbly concrete

RAAC PAC: 10 things we learned as DfE bosses grilled by MPs

Senior civil servants appeared before the public accounts committee amid the school building crisis

DfE to check accuracy of schools’ RAAC surveys

Move comes amid concerns hidden ‘crumbly’ concrete may have been missed by school staff who did checks

RAAC: Treasury snubbed 10-year school rebuild funds, says ex-minister

Lord Agnew says he had ‘probably 10 meetings’ to try to get a ‘long-term envelope’ confirmed

DfE now says ‘reasonable’ RAAC revenue costs WILL be funded

Government updates guidance after original funding snub ‘added insult to injury’

RAAC: Why have we tolerated this ‘ticking timebomb’ for so long?

While the dangers of reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete (RAAC) have only recently been on the public’s radar, it has been on my mind for the last ten months since, as Schools Weeks’ investigations reporter, I revealed to the world that RAAC was leaving schools ‘liable to collapse’. Now, I find myself the parent of two […]

RAAC: Conservatives’ concrete crisis causes classroom chaos

A long-read on the week the RAAC ‘ticking time bomb’ exploded

RAAC questionnaire: Trusts ‘assured’ they won’t be named and shamed

Sector leader says ministers have said responsible bodies deemed not to have responded ‘will not be named publicly’