 has been found. The analysis will raise questions about whether schools now dealing with this safety crisis could have been helped far earlier with government investment in their buildings. The Labour scheme - Building Schools for the Future (BSF) - was a £55bn project to renew every secondary school in England, rebuilding half of them and refurbishing the rest. It was ditched by the coalition government (which launched its own school building scheme in 2014). The then education secretary Michael Gove said BSF was characterised by "massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy". There were questions about the value for money in the project, but the structural issues for the schools applying were real. More than 700 projects were shelved. Mr Gove's department published a list of schools affected in 2010. This list stated which ones had had work "stopped" but did not detail what the work was. Projects that had already had their finances agreed were able to continue. BBC Verify looked at the schools which were listed as having their building projects "stopped" and then checked these names against the list of schools affected by RAAC, published by the BBC . Thirteen schools, which had their building work cancelled in 2010, are on the list of schools with potentially dangerous RAAC concrete. Aston Manor Academy - Birmingham Ferryhill School - County Durham Carmel College - Darlington The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls - Ealing, London The Billericay School - Essex The Bromfords School - Essex The Appl){kind=link}
At least 13 schools in England confirmed to have crumbling RAAC concrete had funding to rebuild withdrawn in 2010, BBC research has found.
They had been approved for rebuilding under a Labour scheme, which was then scrapped by the Conservative-led government after it came to power.
Schools have had to close or have closed buildings because potentially dangerous RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete) has been found.
The analysis will raise questions about whether schools now dealing with this safety crisis could have been helped far earlier with government investment in their buildings.
The Labour scheme – Building Schools for the Future (BSF) – was a £55bn project to renew every secondary school in England, rebuilding half of them and refurbishing the rest.