The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls was one of 150 schools found with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) across the UK.   

Some of the schools identified with RAAC have closed including The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls, which has told parents to bring packed lunches as their canteen is closed.  The science block, the old gym and the hall are also out of use.  

From the schools that have RAAC in their buildings, BBC found that 13 of those were set to receive government funding back in 2010 as part of a then Labour party scheme called Building Schools for the Future (BSF). The £55bn project was going to review every secondary school in England and rebuild or renovate them. 

The scheme was scrapped by the following Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government who launched their own scheme.  

In response a Department for Education spokesperson said that they were on track to rebuild its target of 500 schools over the next decade as part of the Schools Rebuilding Programme "on top of 520 schools already delivered since 2015".  

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the crumbling concrete crisis a "national scandal".   

"This analysis shows that these 13 schools would not now be facing the huge disruption caused by the RAAC crisis if the government had not pulled the plug on the building schools for the future programme," he said. 

Government minister Grant Shapps also told BBC Breakfast the BSF programme "clearly couldn't have resolved the problem" of RAAC on its own, since it only applied to secondary schools, and there are far more primary schools".