
A secondary school where teaching has been severely disrupted due to the reinforced concrete crisis is “one of the top” on the list for a rebuild, the local MP has said following a visit by an education minister.
There is now a “road map” in place to get the 1,490 pupils at St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham back into face-to-face lessons after half-term, using the parts of the existing site deemed safe, temporary classrooms and the 19th century former seminary Ushaw College.