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RAAC: More London schools named on government concrete list

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Featherstone High School in Southall is among the most recent additions to the government's RAAC list

An official list from the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed another 10 London schools and colleges have potentially unsafe concrete.

More than 200 schools in England have been told to close areas containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) unless they are made safe.

The most recent lists takes the total number of schools in London to 29, and is accurate as of 27 November.

The DfE previously promised to publish an updated list every two weeks.

According to the list, all pupils at the affected London establishments are able to maintain face-to-face education.

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Which London schools and colleges are affected?

  • Barnet and Southgate College, Enfield
  • Featherstone High School, Ealing
  • St Aloysius RC College, Islington
  • St Mary Magdalene CofE Primary School, Westminster
  • St Mary's Priory RC Infant School, Haringey
  • Westside School, Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Winchmore School, Enfield
  • Ark John Keats Academy, Enfield
  • Kingsbury High School, Brent
  • Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College, Tower Hamlets
  • Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School, Tower Hamlets
  • The Link School, Sutton
  • Bishop Douglass School Finchley, Barnet
  • Cleeve Park School, Bexley
  • Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Lambeth
  • Hornsey School for Girls, Haringey
  • Myatt Garden Primary School, Lewisham
  • Park View School, Haringey
  • Seven Mills Primary School, Tower Hamlets
  • St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Newham
  • St Gregory's Catholic Science College, Brent
  • St Ignatius College, Enfield
  • St John Vianney RC Primary School, Haringey
  • St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School, Greenwich
  • The Coopers' Company and Coborn School, Havering
  • The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls, Ealing
  • The London Oratory School, Hammersmith and Fulham
  • The Palmer Catholic Academy, Redbridge
  • Welbourne Primary School, Haringey
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RAAC is a lighter, cheaper and less durable alternative to concrete that was used between the 1950s and 1990s.

It was used mostly in flat roofing, but also in floors and walls.

The Health and Safety Executive says the material is now beyond its lifespan and has the potential to "collapse with little or no notice".

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