Ministers under pressure to speed up surveys after ‘completely unacceptable’ suggestion that inspections will take months
Schools face waiting until December to find out if their buildings are in danger of collapse because of crumbling concrete.
Parents are demanding that the checks are sped up after officials admitted on Sunday that 450 schools suspected of containing the aerated concrete have still to be inspected. The assessments will not be fully completed until December under a timetable put in place by ministers.
It means tens of thousands of children will go back to school this week, not knowing if classrooms are built with the potentially unsafe material.
In addition, up to 10 per cent of schools and colleges – believed to total as many as 2,200 – have still to respond to a questionnaire circulated by the Department for Education (DfE) on whether the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) is contained in their buildings.