The latest news cycle about RAAC in our schools highlights just one more crisis arising out of the chronic underfunding and neglect of our public services and social infrastructure that has characterised public policy over the past 13 years. So perhaps this is a good moment to pause and reflect more widely about the state of our education estate. To consider what has been lost since what now seems the glory days of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme and to imagine where a revived school building programme may take us next.

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