Real-world school crisis: A timeline of crumbling infrastructure, missed opportunities, and ignored warnings

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Rishi Sunak's government is under intense pressure to act as the collapsing concrete crisis leaves UK schools in a state of disarray, even now where the new school year begins, with more than 100 schools forced to partially or fully close for safety reasons.

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has caused further anger by asking leaders institutions to “get their butts off” and address the structural issues that their institutions face due to the historical use of hardened systems. they used autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) in their construction, a material now considered dangerous, while managers accused the government of “dumping” them with the problem after years of neglect.

Geoff Barton, chairman of the Association of School and College Leaders, told BBC Radio 4's Today program on Wednesday that it would take 440 years to fix the problems in Britain's schools as part of Mr Sunak's plan to rebuild 50 a year, which has so far seen only four refurbished in the past two years.

He also accused the predecessor of Mrs Keegan, Michael Gove, for 'blithely' abandoning Labor's £55billion program to build schools for the future during the years of David Cameron, who should have refurbished 700 schools but failed to not been realized. dismissed as too costly in favor of the Conservatives' own (cheaper) Priority School Building Scheme.

The situation, Mr Barton said, has forced "school principals to scramble to trying to identify pieces of concrete that might look like Aero bars”. when they should be focusing on the kids learning."

New Defense Secretary Grant Shapps also warned that Raac would find himself in "virtually every" area of ​​the public sector, with the same concerns as...