The NAHT and ASCL have jointly written to Gillian Keegan expressing their members’ dismay at the comment she made on the Jeremy Vine show yesterday (5 September) when discussing RAAC concrete.
Keegan told presenter Jeremy Vine that ‘there’s 5 per cent of schools or responsible bodies that have not responded to the survey, now hopefully all this publicity will make them get off their backsides’.
The unions say they have been ‘overwhelmed with complaints’ from their members, and that the minister’s words ‘lack precision and professionalism’.
They calling for the education secretary to immediately and publicly ‘correct the record’ and apologise to members.
‘A failure to do so will be further interpreted as contempt for them and their efforts’, says the NAHT and ASCL.
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