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The deteriorating school estate is damaging pupil attainment and teacher retention, the National Audit Office saysAn estimated 700,000 children are being taught in unsafe or ageing school buildings in England that need major repairs, according to a report.
It said the deteriorating condition of school buildings was damaging pupil attainment and teacher retention.Steve Marsland, head teacher at Russell Scott Primary School, in Manchester, said his head is filled with "worry and panic" over keeping the 460 children at his school safe after raw sewage came up through the floors "on many occasions".
The 15ft piece of fascia board fell from the school building as Ms Ashman waited to collect her children And it highlighted continuing concerns for school buildings that still contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete - a lightweight form of concrete prone to collapse, used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s.
"There has been a lack of centralised funding from the government over the last few decades, which has meant the local authority hasn't been able to maintain the schools, even though they wanted to," she said.Carla Ashman says she "could've been killed" when a piece of fascia board hit her in the faceat least 39 schools had had to closeThe NAO said the DfE had recommended minimum funding of £5.
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