MINISTERS were urged today to reveal the location and conditions of school buildings that are at risk of collapse.

A report by the Department for Education (DfE) in December found that some school buildings have one or more blocks that are at or approaching the end of their designed life-expectancy and structural integrity is impaired.

Risk of collapse was assessed by the DfE as “worsening.”

In a motion in Commons today, Labour called on the government in to release more data.

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “Years of Conservative neglect of the school estate means that children face disruption to learning as well as direct threats to their safety — yet parents are still in the dark about the scale of the problem.”

On Monday, the DfE said 859 schools and sixth-form colleges will receive a share of a £456 million pot to help refurbish and repair buildings.

It comes after a coalition of unions called for action by the government to ensure the deteriorating school buildings are made safe.

National Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted called it disturbing that the government has left schools to fall into a risk of collapse state and that it “either does not know, or will not tell us” which buildings fall into the category.

NASUWT general secretary Dr Patrick Roach said the situation is the “result of years of chronic underinvestment in our education system and the school buildings estate by this government.

“Schools are now counting the cost of the government’s reckless decision a decade ago to abandon the Building Schools for the Future programme,” he said.

“Recent funding announcements are simply insufficient to make up for the decade-plus of cuts and underinvestment in the schools estate.”