Experts have now warned that the crisis could extend beyond the education sector
Ministers are facing calls to be more transparent over the scale of the issue of aerated concrete in public buildings after schools were forced to shut classrooms just before the new term.
It is hoped most of All Saints, on Culcheth Lane, will also remain open though its assembly hall is set to have to close. Manchester Central MP Shadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell said kids education would be 'damaged' in a deprived part of the city. Opposition parties are demanding information about the scale of Raac across the public sector estate, with Labour calling for an “urgent audit”.
Mr Gibb said that a collapse of a beam that had been considered safe over the summer sparked an urgent rethink on whether buildings with aerated concrete could remain open. She said the costs of working around the problem – by using props to support existing structures and conducting surveys on Raac-affected areas – were “eye-watering and wasteful”.
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