00:00 I'm deeply concerned that we're going to see further disruption at the start of the school term.
00:03 Children have already faced such disruption to their education with the pandemic and then
00:07 with the industrial action that ministers failed to stop as soon as they should.
00:12 What we need to see now is a full list of all the schools published so that parents
00:15 can have absolute confidence about what's going on and all of the documents associated with it.
00:20 That's why if the government don't do it, this week we'll force a vote in Parliament
00:23 to get that list of schools released.
00:25 I believe we should have the full list published.
00:27 I cannot understand why ministers refuse to do so.
00:29 There's a complete lack of transparency about all of this.
00:32 And I'm also concerned that we've seen more reports that engineers are being sent into
00:36 further schools to assess the scale of what is going on.
00:39 The government need to be upfront about this.
00:41 Ministers should come clean to parents.
00:42 But we do have to remember that one of the first acts of an incoming Conservative government
00:46 in 2010 was to cancel the Labour school rebuilding programme.
00:49 They haven't been investing in our schools estate and the reason that we're developing
00:53 all of these problems is because of a consistent failure over the last 13 years.
00:57 I think there can be no greater a defining image of the last 13 years of the Conservatives'
01:01 education policy than children sat in classrooms with metal props literally stopping the ceilings
01:06 from falling in on their heads.
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