The Asbestos Advice Helpline’s new infographic includes figures on the number of schools in the UK that are thought to contain the material - almost 90 per cent - and when disturbed what effect it can have on teaching staff and children.
Asbestos was used in school construction in lagging, ceiling panels, partition walls and sprayed coatings from the 1950s until 1999, when it was banned.
The Government’s policy is to manage rather than remove asbestos in schools.
Entitled ‘Asbestos in UK schools: the real threat to our children’, the infographic warns that staff and pupils are unaware of the potentially fatal effect of exposure to asbestos, which can be released into the air by children kicking walls or door frames, slamming a door, removing books from cupboards and pinning work to walls if they contain asbestos.
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