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That may be right, but injune, an official report said that the Department Of Education sees raac as the greatest risk to safety across the school estate. And that was before the risk was upgraded, which is why this issue is raising questions for parents, children and teachers. So, who should be answering all of those questions . The Teaching Union the association of School College leaders says rishi sunak has significant questions to answer over why when he was chancellor the budget was cut to fix crumbling concrete in schools. The general secretary of the ascl, geoff barton, is with us now. Welcome, geoff. I want to explain to viewers that it was because jonathan i want to explain to viewers that it was becauseJonathan Slater said that when rishi sunak was chancellor the treasury refused to put more money into repairing schools and actually cut funding that there is this political row, something the Prime Minister strongly denies. I think that is completely and Utterly Wrong. Actuall
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 important context to know is that in many cases this could be limited to a single classroom i for example, so people should have a sense of scale of what might be happening as well. Earlier, a former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education accused mr sunak and the uk treasury of refusing to fund School Repairs adequately, despite being warned that lives were at risk from crumbling concrete
Sancho says hes been made a scapegoat at the club. Its after manager erik ten hag didnt pick him in his squad yesterday due to his performances in training. But sancho has hit back, saying please dont believe everything you read. I wont allow people saying things that are completely untrue. Before adding, ive been a scapegoat for a long time, which isnt fair. Former united striker dwight yorke has had his say. Hes been left out because apparently hes not been training particularly great. And he comes out saying hes been doing exactly what he needs to be doing in training, so we dont know whats going on there. Its hard to start pointing your finger and to know the exact details. Ive been in that situation, so i kind of understand how it works. But its a bit strange at the minute, i have to say. Just four days to go until the start of the Rugby World Cup in france, and as the preparations for that Epic Opening Match between the hosts and new zealand enter theirfinal stages, the french te
And a mad scramble right at the start of a new school year, to find alternatives. We have three companies coming out today that are trying to help us procure temporary classrooms. We dont know yet whether we have managed to get any, and how long they will take to be delivered. But we are obviously flat out working on it. 104 schools have so far found themselves having to close entirely or partially because of unsafe raac concrete. This morning, the Education Secretary said there could be hundreds more affected, as the government was still waiting to hear from 1,500 schools about whether they have this concrete in their buildings. There will be some surveys still to do. The vast majority of surveys we do come back without raac. But where we find it, we will treat everyone as critical, and we will either prop them up or put temporary accommodation into place. And then we will refurbish or rebuild them if needed. Labour accused the government putting childrens lives at risk, as a former C