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RAAC school faces £2m hit after pupils go elsewhere

Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust is not the only MAT complaining of drops in numbers at RAAC-affected schools

Unspent buildings cash worth £36k to each school, claim unions

‘Only sensible option’ is to give unspent cash to schools, say leaders

Councils still paying PFI bills for closed schools (but some can’t talk about it)

Investigation exposes ongoing complexities of PFI deals, use of gagging clauses and how the DfE paid off contracts in early academy days

Quick-fix school buildings hazards that could be next RAAC scandal

Timber rooves held together with ‘glue and panel pins’ and materials that turn to ‘fragile Weetabix’ when wet are ticking timebombs in our school buildings, finds Jessica Hill A swollen national debt, depleted construction force and baby boom after the Second World War made Britain desperate for new ways to build schools cheaply and quickly. […]

Living with RAAC: How one school is still coping with crisis

Nine months after the RAAC crisis hit, the issue no longer dominates the news agenda but its fallout still impacts schools. Jessica Hill visits St Andrew’s Junior School, in the Essex village of Hatfield Peverel, to see the problems first hand The story of what happened to a school at risk of collapse from reinforced […]

Capital funding pot increasingly ‘preserve of the rich’

Analysis shows half of academies that offered to cough up higher amounts got CIF funding

Warning sounded as schools not ready to exit PFI deals

Sector leaders fear schools will be left to ‘shoulder the storm’

LocatED: Ex-Tory minister to chair DfE property arm for £1k-a-day

Former housing minister and Hertford MP Mark Prisk appointed by Gillian Keegan

Failed contractor’s £45 million schools to be demolished and rebuilt

But one of the schools says work will take four years, as ministers take legal advice over recouping costs from collapsed construction company