katherines primary academy in essex won t open next week, parents are asking why the warning was so last minute. it is a bit frustrating because it just seemed to be last second that they decided to say the building is not safe. this school in south london has been partially closed. i have two children, one of my children is in key stage two so her building is this one here which will be closed, and she will be relocated to another site about 20 minutes that way. my son is in year two so he will stay in the building that is still safe and usable. i will have a double drop off and pick up. the government says it is acting now because the guidance changed after a raac beam collapsed in a school last week. the beam had previously been thought safe. raac was used in public buildings from the 19505 to the mid 1990s because it was quicker to manufacture than traditional reinforced concrete and easier to install. as you can see, it is fairly lightweight and you can . probably see th
and in my third school, 12 rooms. so you can see it s quite considerable. but it s notjust schools, the department of health said 2a hospital sites like hitchin brook hospital in huntington had weak concrete, known as raac. other public buildings are also affected, like harrow crown court, which could be shut for nine months. labour is calling for an urgent audit of all public buildings. it doesn t always need an expensive inspection, but an audit. ..some of it would be a desk audit, if you like, done on paper. some of it would then require further inspection, further audits by structural engineers and others. so we do need to know the scale of the problem. this is the aerated concrete used in buildings in the 1960s, 70s and 80s that is causing so much concern. we don t really know the scale of the problem. there is no central record, although individual government departments are being required to keep a log, that s not public information. so we know about that risk in sch
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