Due to the crumbling concrete catastrophe, the government has ordered the closure or partial closure of more than 100 educational facilities, just as many young students should be starting a new school or courses for the first time.
We discovered other schools across the country that have been forced to turn away students or function at a reduced capacity, with no idea how long the mess will endure.
Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s shadow education secretary, said “ministers need to get a grip” and that the Department of Education was in “complete chaos.”
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt moved to reassure parents the Government would “spend what it takes” to address the problem, but Treasury sources later said money for repairs would come from the Department for Education’s (DfE) existing capital budget.
List of schools that have been affected so far:
- Ferryhill School, County Durham
- Willowbrook Mead Primary Academy, Leicester
- Parks Primary, Leicester
- Mayflower Primary School, Leicester
- Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, London
- Crossflats Primary school, Bradford
- Eldwick Primary School, Bradford
- Cockermouth School, Cumbria
- Kingsdown School, Southend
- Abbey Lane Primary School, Sheffield
- Aston Manor Academy, Birmingham
- Aylesford School, Warwick
- Buckhurst Hill Community Primary School, Essex
- Buckton Fields Primary School, Northampton, East Midlands
- Clacton County High School, Essex
- Claydon High School, Suffolk
- Corpus Christi Catholic School, London
- East Bergholt High School, Colchester, Essex
- East Tilbury Primary School, Essex
- Eldwick Primary School, Bradford, West Yorkshire
- Farlingaye High School, Suffolk
- Hadleigh High School, Hadleigh, Suffolk
- Hockley Primary School, Essex
- Honywood School, Colchester, Essex
- Kingsdown School, Southend, Essex
- Mistley Norman Church of England Primary School, Essex
- Our Lady’s Catholic High School, Fulwood, Lancashire
- Pershore High School, Pershore, Worcestershire
- Ravens Academy, Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
- Scalby School, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
- Springfield Primary School, Chelmsford, Essex
- St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Harlow Green, Tyne and Wear
- St Bede’s Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College, Easington, County Durham
- St Bernard’s School, Bolton, Greater Manchester
- St Clere’s School, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex
- St Francis Catholic Primary School, Ascot, Berkshire
- St James Catholic School, Hebburn, Tyne and Wear
- St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
- St Leonard’s School, Durham, County Durham
- St Mary Magdalene Academy, London
- St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School, Darlington, County Durham
- St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive, Eltham, London
- St William of York Catholic Primary School, Bolton, York
- Thameside Primary school, Essex
- The Appleton School, Benfleet, Essex
- The Billericay School, Billericay, Essex
- The Bromfords School, Wickford, Essex
- The Gilberd School, Colchester, Essex
- Tendring Technology College, Frinton Campus, Essex
- Thomas Lord Audley School, Colchester, Essex
- Thurstable School, Essex
- Waddesdon Church of England School, Buckinghamshire
- Willowbrook Mead Primary Academy, Leicester
- Winter Gardens Academy, Canvey Island, Essex
- Wood Green Academy, Wednesbury, West Midlands
- Woodville Primary School, Chelmsford, Essex
- Wyburns Primary School, Rayleigh, Essex
Education Minister Gillian Keegan is under increasing pressure to provide a list of all schools that have been closed completely or partially, but we can already provide you with a list of sites that have been affected thus far.
Story will be updated.