GOVERNMENT plans to rebuild or repair hundreds of schools left crumbling through use of dangerous concrete will take years to complete and will receive no new funding, teaching unions said today.

And there are no plans to deal with schools riddled with deadly asbestos.

Teachers’ unions NASUWT and National Education Union (NEU) were responding to an announcement from the government’s Department for Education (DfE) that it has “committed to funding the removal of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) present in schools and colleges in England either through grants or through the school rebuilding programme.”