Failure of three ‘non-critical’ RAAC beams forced safety rethink

The education secretary has revealed that the sudden failure over the summer of three RAAC concrete planks previously classified as non-critical prompted the decision to close over 100 schools.
In a statement to Parliament Gillian Keegan said surveyors discovered the non-critical RAAC failures during a programme of assessments started last September.
This led to the identification of three previously classified non-critical risk failures that happened without warning.
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