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Known as raac a type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. Meanwhile, in the last couple of hours another twist with the Education Secretary caught on camera voicing her frustrations about the media coverage. This is Gillian Keegan, after an interview with itv news. Does anyone ever say, you know what, youve done a bleep good job, because Everyone Else has sat on their and done nothing . No signs of that, no . The footage was captured by itv news as the Camera Repositioned for extra shots at the end of an interview with the minister, while she was still wearing her microphone. I...

And it is important once it had that that the government acted on it i as swiftly as possible. Of course i know thei timing is frustrating. But i want to give people a sense of the scale of what we are grappling with here. There are around 22,000 schools. In england and the important thing to know is we are expecting 95 of those schools will not be impacted by this, i around 50 schools have already been mitigated. Another 100 are in the process of being so. 0ur Expectation is in a matter of weeks the bulk of the remaining schools that will have this issue will be identified as well. Also an im...

In 2021, the Conservative government began a School Rebuilding Programme, declaring it would rebuild 500 schools over the next 10 years. Two years on just four schools have been rebuilt.

Jenny Grehan-Bradley comments on how the ongoing RAAC crisis and how this "catastrophic disruption to learning was absolutely preventable".

As the crumbling concrete hits the headlines, CN takes a closer look – and asks, what happens next? Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) crashed