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

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No. This is incorrect.

Labour had taken action - by putting in place the BSF.

The Tory government cut the BSF back in 2010 and further when asked to make money available (bearing in mind a chunk of concrete had fallen off a school in 2018) they didn’t provide nearly enough - indeed they halved it - here’s Mr Slater on the Today programme yesterday (from 1:12:53).