The education secretary, Michael Gove, has spent today apologising for mistakenly allowing schools in England to believe that their rebuilding programmes would be going ahead when hundreds of others were being scrapped.
As a result of 25 errors in an original list issued by the Department for Education on Monday, parents and teachers at a number of schools – around a dozen in all, we think – had their hopes raised in vain.
Labour MPs have called the slip-up "intolerable" and "astonishing". Gove, who has pulled the plug on Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme, has been labelled a "miserable pipsqueak".
We are putting together a package of material in relation to this story, and we are interested in hearing from schools – there are about 700 in total – whose building programmes have been cancelled.
Are you one of the schools which had put work into a BSF programme that will now not go ahead? How much time and money have you lost – and what are the consequences of the building not going ahead? What's your opinion of Gove's mishandling of the situation – and what should happen now?
We would like to hear directly from you – please email us at educationguardian.co.uk@guardian.co.uk – or, if you have general views on the issue, please post them below.
