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The Latest Breaking News from Gillian Keegan

Hunt to set out tougher welfare rules and boost living wage at Tory conference

Other measures at the Manchester gathering will include a plan to ban mobile phones in England’s schools.

The Independent UK

Unions ask Sunak for extra £4.4bn a year to fix crumbling schools in England

Eight unions and school governors’ body write to PM saying Raac crisis highlights chronic underfunding

The Guardian - UK

Involve parents before pupils ‘socially transition’ at school, says NHS England

Guidance says families should be involved in decisions to refer to child with different name and pronoun or use of different toilets and facilities

The Guardian - UK

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London school closed due to concrete fears has ‘no timeframe’ for reopening

Stepney All Saints secondary school is the only school in the country currently closed to all pupils over crumbling concrete concerns

Evening Standard

Starmer and Macron didn’t talk about Brexit or the booing – no point falling out on a first date

Parliament is a dead zone, so the Labour leader spent much of the week abroad and Tory MPs put their feet up

The Guardian - UK

Children prefer learning in temporary classrooms, Education Secretary claims amid concrete crisis

Gillian Keegan made the claim about ‘high-quality’ portable cabins as she updated MPs on how the Government is handling problem of Raac concrete in schools

Evening Standard

Children prefer learning in temporary classrooms, Education Secretary claims

An additional 27 schools and colleges in England have been identified as having reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), figures show.

The Independent UK

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Watch as Gillian Keegan takes questions in parliament on crumbling concrete in schools

Watch as Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, takes questions in parliament on schools affected by crumbling concrete and the impact on children's learning.

The Independent UK

Pupils ‘prefer portacabins to classrooms’, education secretary claims

A total of 23 schools have been forced to adopt some degree of remote learning due to safety concerns over the concrete

The Independent UK

Swearing has lost none of its power to shock – thank f***!

Adverts, MPs and newsreaders have all been caught in the act… But are we losing our understanding of context and how language evolves?

The Guardian - UK

Could Gillian Keegan identify Raac if she saw it?

Letter: School site manager Mark Hosking says the education secretary needs to stop blaming everyone else and order inspections

The Guardian - UK

Brits have a rich swearing heritage. Let’s follow Gillian Keegan’s lead, FFS

Post-Brexit politics is shameless, amoral and venal, so perhaps MPs’ language should match our torrid times

The Guardian - UK

Gillian Keegan: a very modern Tory, self-made and unbound

The go-getting education minister has travelled from car-factory apprentice at 16 to success in business and politics, and sees no reason for modesty

The Guardian - UK

G20-bound Rishi Sunak defends ‘correct’ Raac school closures

Prime minister says example set by schools will not necessarily have to be followed by other public buildings

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The Independent UK

Gillian Keegan U-turns on ‘naming and shaming’ schools that miss Raac survey deadline

Education secretary called on schools to “get off their backsides” and return the surveys

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: I’m falling apart in this heat. Someone call Gillian Keegan

A heatwave in September is a brutal, brutal betrayal for us sun haters

The Independent UK

Rise in unruly pupils after Covid lockdown prompts fears concrete crisis could make it worse

Raac emergency highlights ‘deep-seated concerns held by governors and trustees’ about the state of schools

The Guardian - UK

UK abandoned plans to rejoin Euratom after concluding impact of absence ‘could not be reversed’– as it happened

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The National (Scotland)

UK officials BLANK Scottish requests for 'new' Raac risk evidence

UK officials have repeatedly failed to explain to the Scottish Government why entire schools in England have closed, The National can reveal.

The Independent UK

Gillian Keegan visits school after criticising ‘sensationalist’ concrete queries

The under-fire Education Secretary visited a school in Essex, which is one of the regions worst affected by crumbling concrete.

The Independent UK

Sunak may drop plan to ban children changing gender at school

PM said to have concerns complete ban on ‘social transitioning’ could open up new Tory rift

The Guardian - UK

Gillian Keegan attacks ‘sensationalist’ coverage of school concrete crisis

Education secretary says ‘bad press’ over her handling of Raac ‘really hasn’t bothered me that much’

The Independent UK

Gillian Keegan to make school visit amid pressure over crumbling concrete crisis

The Education Secretary is expected to meet school leaders and local MPs in Essex.

The Guardian - UK

RishGPT recycles old soundbites as last vestiges of credibility crumble

Sunak knew he would be grilled over the school concrete crisis but failed to come up with anything plausible to say at PMQs

The Independent UK

Schools concrete crisis: A timeline of crumbling infrastructure, chances missed and warnings ignored

‘Cowboy builders’ Rishi Sunak and Gillian Keegan under fire as government publishes list of 147 institutions of concern over the use of sub-standard material in their construction

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