Raac hospital rebuilds will go ahead despite spending review, MPs told | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/mps-hospitals-wes-streeting-rachel-reeves-nhs-b2616484.html
#RAAC
#Hospitals
#HospitalRebuilds
#HospitalRebuildsReview
#SpendingReview
#Labour
#Streeting
@JugglingWithEggs I'm still amazed that the KL hospital trust, WNBC and NCC all seem keen to press on with building a hilltop car park tower before building a new hospital to replace our RAAC one currently held up by thousands of props. Priorities all wrong.
#RAAC #NHS #WestNorfolk
To be clear, the aerated bubbles in 𝐑einforced 𝐀utoclaved 𝐀erated 𝐂oncrete, could be filled with moisture and cause it to sag; and importantly, according to experts, it can deteriorate over time and is susceptible to 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞.' #RAAC
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/welsh-government-pay-bubbly-concrete-28783383?utm_source=wales_online_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Wales+Online+-+Daily+Newsletter_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=7e8f9ac0-a9ac-4ead-bd68-d3d0e2c03a07
6 bits of bad news the Tories slipped out as MPs break up for half-term recess
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/6-bits-of-bad-news-the-tories-slipped-out-as-mps-break-up-for-half-term-recess/ar-BB1hZuQf?cvid=7db4ef555c154d1ca96462387d22f2d1&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6
#Tories
#HalfTerm
#Sunak
#Transphobia
#RAAC
#Evictions
#DentalCare
#Housing
#AsylumSeekers
#Firefighters
#InfectedBloodScandal
#RAAC More than 100 school buildings will be rebuilt or refurbished
All affected schools will receive funding to permanently remove it - although unions say the announcement includes no new money
234 schools & colleges confirmed to contain the concrete
This looks very much like the "40 new hospitals" that the #vacuumOfIntegrity promised
Safe to make promises of magical funding given they are about to be pitched out of office
Underinvestment in education has resulted in crumbling schools and children learning in freezing conditions – but the crisis runs deeper | Anonymous Teacher
#RAAC
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/education/crumbling-schools-across-britain-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/?feed_id=481&_unique_id=65afadfaadc2c
'‘So much anxiety’: students at #Raac-affected #Durham #school tell of despair
Report sets out in detail the disruption to St Leonard’s, one of schools worst hit by ‘#CrumblingConcrete’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/18/st-leonards-catholic-school-durham-crumbling-concrete-raac-report
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Education #ToryIndifference
The #RAAC crisis continues in #schools with the Govt. compounding the problem by refusing requests fr #exam help for students in schools where facilities are unusable due to the risk of building collapse....
This story remains a metaphor for how the UK's approach to #infrastructure (cost-cutting & skipped maintenance) is not sustainable.... and as we know this is not an issue limited to schools.
(article also contains a helpful graphic on the RAAC problem)
More on the #RAAC problem in #schools;
the number of effected schools far surpasses the number of 'slots' on the #Tories school rebuilding programme;
But even if there was funding, the #construction sector has too little capacity to conduct the work in the next coupe, of years;
So, #schoolchidren's safety, like so much of Britain's welfare has become a lottery (possibly linked to whether you have a Tory MP?).
The wreckers continue to destroy our country....
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/23/raac-concrete-schools-england-repairs-latest-figures
@AnthonyFStevens @riggbeck
Labours stated policy response to the tory economic policies that have blighted the UK...
....is continuing those same disastrous policies
Continuity austerity, more NHS budgets diverted to private healthcare, continuing under-funding schools, - labour wont even commit to making school building safe (#RAAC)
That kind of short-term, stupid, harmful crap is what #tories do ...and #labour and #reeves state they will continue
'List of schools & colleges where presence of #RAAC was confirmed by 27 Nov has been published:
𝟮𝟮𝟴 settings are providing face-to-face learning for all pupils
3 settings have hybrid arrangements in place
0 have had to move to remote learning fulltime.'
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/12/06/new-guidance-on-raac-in-education-settings/
'List of schools & colleges where presence of #RAAC was confirmed by 27 Nov has been published:
𝟮𝟮𝟴 settings are providing face-to-face learning for all pupils
3 settings have hybrid arrangements in place
0 have had to move to remote learning fulltime.'
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/12/06/new-guidance-on-raac-in-education-settings/
Keegan to get her own camera person (on £50k a year) | Schools Week https://schoolsweek.co.uk/keegan-to-get-her-own-camera-person-on-50k-a-year/ < SEND is in tatters, #RAAC in ever more crumbling buildings, but Keegan's strategy is hiring a videographer, & £8million for school portraits of King Charles?
Educational psychologists on strike: ‘It’s all crumbling’ | Schools Week https://schoolsweek.co.uk/educational-psychologists-on-strike-its-all-crumbling/ < “constant cycle of not being able to do enough or not being able to do it well, but getting more to do. That gap just gets bigger. At some point it’s going to crumble." Like #RAAC?
MPs hit out at ‘shocking’ lack of detail on the crumbling concrete crisis in schools | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-hit-out-at-shocking-lack-of-detail-on-the-crumbling-concrete%E2%80%93crisis-in-schools
#RAAC
#Schools
#MPs
#PublicAccountsCommittee
#DFE
#NationalEducationUnion
#NationalAssociationOfHeadTeachers
While #RAAC revelations raised the profile of #infrastructure problems & lack of maintenance across the #publicsector, especially in #health & #education, if you're expecting #JeremyHunt to fund a massive programme of remedial works, then you're likely to be disappointed.
Rather than dealing with our crumbling buildings, he'll be setting out how to increase #taxes on most of us (by allowing 'fiscal drag' - not using allowances - to continue) while helping the rich by cutting #InheritanceTax!
It's not just #RAAC that presents a problem in schools. @thetimes reports that 'education officials remain unsure, more than 5 years after they were asked to complete assessments, whether or not #asbestos is present in almost 1,000 schools across England'.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/asbestos-is-still-lurking-in-our-classrooms-we-need-to-find-it-svjjg5ht2
'New @WestSuffolkNHS hospital site may not be completed - of crucial importance as hospital is affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete. #RAAC
@EADT24 reports that @CommonsPAC has cast doubt on plans to construct 40 new hospitals in England by 2030.'
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23931616.new-west-suffolk-hospital-site-may-not-completed/?ref=twtrec
'New @WestSuffolkNHS hospital site may not be completed - of crucial importance as hospital is affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete. #RAAC
@EADT24 reports that @CommonsPAC has cast doubt on plans to construct 40 new hospitals in England by 2030.'
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23931616.new-west-suffolk-hospital-site-may-not-completed/?ref=twtrec
@CriticalCupcake given that neither #tories or #labour have timely plans to replace #RAAC in schools, cleaner air seems a long way off
It is a disgrace how little care is given to a safe and healthy learning (and work) environment in schools
Less absence and illness is such a positive and easy win, for the children, their parents, and society, AND the economy ,.......but "difficult choices" , "fiscal responsibility", blah, blah, blah
