Speaking following the publication of a list of schools so far affected by RAAC, Dr Patrick Roach, NASUWT General Secretary said:

“This raises even more questions about the Government’s handling of this crisis which has already been dogged by a lack of transparency and attempts to shift blame onto schools.

“The Government needs to come clean immediately with a list of all schools affected by RAAC.

“Questions must be asked about why has it taken six days to produce this list of schools and when did the Government first receive the advice to raise the risk warning for those schools.

“Publishing a list without an urgent plan to fix the problem in each and every one of these schools will be of no comfort to the thousands of pupils, parents and school staff whose lives are being impacted by the Government’s actions.

“Children and young people deserve better and should not have their education disrupted because the Government is unable properly to get a grip of this situation.”