5 September (Part 1) - Not sitting on their arses. © Gillian Keegan
The Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete business which has occupied
the thoughts of a few BiB readers did not just come to light
only last week. In July 2023 Labour Councillor Esther Amaning (Belvedere) asked the Cabinet Member for Education about it but
was much too far down the questions queue to get an answer straight away.
But eventually she did as follows…
There is still nothing on the Council’s or Cleeve Park School’s website about it presumably because affected parents have been kept informed
more directly and everything is under control.
The official Council statement came only on X (formerly Twitter).
“The London Borough of Bexley currently has one Academy School - Cleeve Park School, Sidcup,
where reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete has been discovered in a small part
of the school following a DfE survey. The Council will continue to liaise with
both the school and the DfE on the arrangements to monitor and manage this
issue. The school has put in agreed measures to shut off the affected area,
which will enable the school to remain open.”
You can be pretty sure that infinitely more Cleeve Park pupils will injure themselves by tripping in the
playground than by decaying concrete.
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