Does anyone ever say ‘you know what, you’ve done a f****** good job because everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing?'
The Education Secretary was caught on camera voicing her frustrations over coverage surrounding the potentially dangerous concrete in many British schools.
It comes following reports that more than 100 schools in the UK contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete - while Ms Keegan today admitted hundreds more could be affected. It has resulted in a number of schools being forced to close shortly before the start of the new school year while repairs take place.
Speaking to Sky News, she said: "What happened over the summer is we had three cases – not in schools, some in schools, some not in schools – and I sent structural engineers out to see them, somewhere in commercial settings, and some in different jurisdictions. “So I decided to take a very cautious approach. And I knew it was going to be difficult because, you know, obviously, for parents, for teachers, this coming so late in August, but that’s when we got the evidence that a panel had failed in a roof that had previously been classified as non-critical.”She added: “I wasn’t willing to take the risk. It was just one panel, but it was in a roof that had been assessed as non-critical.
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