About 1,500 more schools in England could potentially contain crumbling concrete, the education secretary has said.
Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, told the BBC that around 10 per cent - or 1,500 English schools - are yet to return the surveys sent out by the Department for Education to identify RAAC in buildings.
Elsewhere, the government is coming under increasing pressure to publish a full list of the schools affected.
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It was also claimed that the prime minister was warned of a “critical risk to life” from crumbling schools in 2021 when he was chancellor.
Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said it is “vital” that the government publish the list of all RAAC-constructed buildings that are dangerous “as soon as possible”.
Ms Keegan has vowed to publish a list of the schools affected by the concrete crisis this week.
