More Than 100 School Buildings Ordered Shut Amid Collapsing Concrete Fears

Government urged to 'come clean' with list of schools affected

Workmen at one of the schools affected by RAAC concrete, Abbey Lane Primary School in Sheffield, England on Sep. 1, 2023. PA

The Department for Education has ordered 104 schools and colleges to shut buildings which contain a special type of concrete, amid fears that it could be prone to collapse.

Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which was widely used to construct schools and other buildings between the 1950s and the early 1980s.