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Asbestos risk higher in schools due to shared occupancy; oversight concerns raised
Conclusion
In its written submission, NAHT (the school leadership union) emphasised that shared occupancy of school buildings by adults and young people can lead to a higher risk of asbestos disturbance than in other workplaces, and that even normal school activities can routinely disturb asbestos. It concluded that this leads to increased risk for everyone in the school environment. NAHT also expressed its concern that oversight of asbestos via the CDC2 programme would not be as detailed as in the survey launched in 2018, and would therefore not provide the same level of transparency.38 32 UK Parliament, School and Colleges update, 19 September 2023 33 Department for Education, Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC): management information, 19 October 2023 34 September 2023 session, Qq 115, 127 35 Committee of Public Accounts, Academies Sector Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20, Forty-Seventh Report of Session 2021–22, HC 994, 25 March 2022, pages 6–7 36 HM Treasury, Government Response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Forty-Third to the Forty-Eighth report from Session 2021–22, CP 678, May 2022, page 28 37 July 2023 session, Qq 26–27, 47–48; Correspondence from DfE to the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, 7 September 2023 38 TSB0002, NAHT, The condition of school buildings, 13 July 2023 The condition of school buildings 15
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 8 March 2024. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document.
Source
Committee
Public Accounts Committee
Report
Second Report - The condition of school buildings
19 Nov 2023
HC 78
Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age
2.8 yrs
Report published
19 Nov 2023