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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal and Severin Carrell

DfE accused of covering up crumbling concrete at Scottish school for months

Jenny Gilruth
The Scottish education secretary, Jenny Gilruth, has made repeated requests to the Department for Education to see the expert evidence. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Ministers have been accused of covering up evidence for months about crumbling concrete at a Scottish school, which led to the rushed decision to close more than 100 other schools.

Decay in aerated concrete in a building at Queen Victoria school, a privately run boarding school in Perthshire, was seen as so significant that Department of Education (DfE) officials sent health and safety officials to examine it in May.

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