School condition data to be published for parents this year – Tim Warneford featured in Schools Week
Government has been warned against stigmatising schools that have fallen into disrepair “through no fault of their own” after revealing plans to publish building condition details for parents.
The Department for Education believes publishing the information from its condition data collection (CDC) study will boost transparency and highlight “the mess left by the Conservatives”.
Officials are working to process the files – compiled following surveys conducted between 2017 and 2019 – and make them accessible on the government’s website this autumn.
Tim Warneford was asked for his perspective by Jack Dyson of Schools Week:
“It’s not going to tell parents very much. It won’t be contemporary [information] and … these are not intrusive surveys – they are very fast, drive-by surveys. What’s more likely is the CDC will score things more highly, but if you send a chartered surveyor in there, they will be able to lift the bonnet and grade them far lower.”
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