Its been a testing first day back after the Summer Recess for the government, now mired in the controversy over crumbling concrete. Ministers say a list will be published this week of all the schools affected in england, as rishi sunak rejected claims he oversaw budget cuts as chancellor that meant Raac Concrete couldnt be replaced in as many schools, as the Department For Education had wanted. Its also been a testing day for the Education Secretary, who had to apologise for her frustration, expressed in salty language, after being questioned over the governments handling of the situation. And remember, in the middle of all this are thousands of children, still unsure whether their schools will be fully open for the start of the new term. We will talk to parents and teachers and analyse the finances around School Maintenance and rebuilding. But first chris mason In Westminster on the politics of crumbling concrete. You probably hadnt heard of it until the other day but this stuff, conc
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Teacher in essex, says he did fill in the survey, but the governments policy on raac changed mid way through the process. I will tell you my comment about yesterdays comment. Its, well, hey, we arent all monks, are we . Weve probably all had our own discretions at times, but they arent always recorded. However, i quite like a compliment when i cook a nice dinner for my wife, but i usually fish for the compliment at the end of the meal, not before ive finished cooking it. So lets wait until we are at the end of this crisis and then well decide who deserves a thank you at the end. Thats really my take on it. With regard to the more recent comment that you just spoke about, well, i dont think that thats aimed at me particularly because i am a school that did fill out the questionnaire that then was then put in touch with the dfe and then the dfe kindly surveyed the school for us and kindly commissioned a report. That report is what identified the fact that we had raac. However, i think th
To wake up to. The sunrise will be coming up in the next 20 minutes. We are here for a serious reason. Not just to enjoy what promises to be a lovely day. We are discussing a topic which matters an awful lot to you at home. Water quality. The amount of sewage in our water. This morning we will hear from the Water Companies. We hearfrom the Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey. We will hear from campaigners. And we would love to hearfrom campaigners. And we would love to hear from you as well. We will let you know how to get in touch throughout breakfast. Because we have a big bbc investigation today, it has found that what looks like the Water Companies illegally discharging raw Sewage Hundreds Of Times Last year. Our team has seen analysis. They have looked at data from three of the largest Water Companies, times, wessex and Southern Water. It appears to show that On 400 Spills Last year, lasting thousands of hours, sewage was released, not during wet weather, storms, heavy rain and