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Are spending cuts to blame for the schools concrete crisis? (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by merridew to c/unitedkingdom

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"The Conservatives inherited just under £10bn a year in education capital sending in 2010, and have spent £5-6bn a year since then, in real terms. Part of those savings came from scrapping the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in 2010, which aimed to rebuild and refurbish every secondary school in England."

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[–] merridew 6 points 1 year ago

"Mr Slater also suggested that ministers preferred to spend money on opening shiny new schools with opportunities for photos in hard hats, than the more routine job of ensuring the existing stock of school buildings were up to date."