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<p>It is the responsibility of those who run schools - academy trusts, Local Authorities and voluntary aided school bodies - to manage the safety and maintenance of their schools and to alert the department if there is a serious concern with a building. It has always been the case that where the department is made aware that a building may pose an immediate risk, immediate action is taken.</p><p>All responsible bodies were requested to complete a questionnaire. As of 14 November 2023, the department now has responses to these questionnaires for all of the schools with blocks built in the target era, of which there are 15,158.</p><p>Where responsible bodies notify the department that they require a survey, it has allocated a professional surveyor to assess whether RAAC is present. The department has eight survey firms contracted to deliver technical surveys so we can rapidly confirm if RAAC is present.</p><p>All schools and colleges that have advised us they suspect they might have RAAC have had a survey to confirm if RAAC is present. The vast majority of schools and colleges surveyed to date have been found to have no RAAC.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> |