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Schools: Buildings

Answer

The guidance for education settings with confirmed RAAC in their buildings makes clear that schools should consider educational, safeguarding and wellbeing impacts for pupils and do their best to minimise the amount and length of any disruption to education, with support from their caseworker. The guidance is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-guidance-for-responsible-bodies-and-education-settings-with-confirmed-raac.

The Department’s priority is that pupils remain in face to face education or can return to it as soon as possible. Where schools do need to deliver education remotely, they are likely to already have established plans in place that have worked well for them, including through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department has produced guidance to support schools to provide high-quality remote education, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/providing-remote-education-guidance-for-schools.

This guidance recommends that schools have systems for checking, daily, whether pupils are safe at home and engaging with their remote education. To help schools in doing that, the Department has brought together various sources of government support at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mental-health-and-wellbeing-support-in-schools-and-colleges.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

203126

Session

2022-23

Subjects

Buildings Pupils Mental health Schools Repairs and maintenance Concrete

Link

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