Asbestos Update

“National scandal” over asbestos in schools

A report issued by the Joint Union Asbestos Committee at the National Union of Teachers conference in Brighton has revealed government knowledge about the presence of asbestos in 75 per cent of schools, calling the failure to act on this national scandal “disgraceful”. Successive governments had, said the report, shown a “scandalous disregard for life” by failing to mandate rigorous measures to prevent future cases of asbestos cancer, according to the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS).