Rishi Sunak is set to face a brutal grilling at PMQs today as headteachers attacked the Tories for “gleefully” pulling the last Labour government’s rebuilding scheme.
At least 13 of the schools found to have crumbling concrete had funding to rebuild scrapped by the Conservative government back in 2010, it has emerged.
Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said that he had visited a school in Suffolk set for vital repair work on the day then-education secretary Michael Gove “gleefully” announced Labour’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme was getting pulled.
He said the scrapping of the “important” works programme meant “we’ve got head teachers scrambling around trying to identify bits of concrete that might look like Aero bars when they should be focusing on children’s learning”.
Mr Barton added that it would take 440 years to fix under Mr Sunak’s plan to rebuild 50 schools a year – noting that it would have been complete by now if started in the time of the Spanish Armada.
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