The Government has told more than 100 educational sites to shut or partially close due to the crumbling concrete crisis just as many children should be starting a new school or lessons for the first time.
Express.co.uk has found multiple schools across the country that have been told to turn away kids or operate at lower capacity, with limited information on how long the debacle will last.
Labour shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson 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.
Education Minister Gillian Keegan is coming under mounting pressure to publish a list of all the schools suffering from full or partial closures, but we can already bring you a list of sites that are known to have been affected to far.
List of schools confirmed by Express.co.uk to 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
Other schools reportedly affected by the crisis, according to Sky News and BBC:
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
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