Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says the education department is leaving MPs and headteachers in the dark about what it is doing
A lack of clarity and action over crumbling concrete in schools is slowing efforts to get pupils back into classrooms, Labour has said, arguing that ministers seem intent on covering up the scale of the crisis.
Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, said the Department for Education had not replied to parliamentary questions on the subject, had yet to update the list of affected schools, and was not giving headteachers answers about what would be paid for.
