Education Settings: Safe Learning

Part of Education – in the House of Commons am ar 31 Ionawr 2022.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Andrew Gwynne Andrew Gwynne Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)

I, too, want children to be taught in safe spaces. That brings me yet again to the plight of Russell Scott Primary School in Denton, where, as the Minister knows, a botched £2.7 million refurbishment by Carillion has left the school with wrecked footings; a leaking roof; defective fire safety measures; inadequate drainage that floods the school with raw sewage; and playing fields that still resemble the Somme. It needs £5 million for that to be put right, or a new build. Baroness Barran wrote to me last week and basically said, “Tough—there’s no money.” That is not acceptable, is it? This is not levelling up. Let us get the purse strings opened and rebuild Russell Scott.