The scandal of Edinburgh’s unsafe schools is the last gasp of a discredited model of public finance,forced on us by a tax-avoiding governing classThe Acronym Soup can get confusing. PPP, PFI, and NPD – they are all hurled approximately,but there will certainly be no alphabet learning for more than 7000 pupils across Edinburgh locked out of school since the Easter shatter as building safety standards are assessed and repairs undertaken. The schools were built under the controversial private finance initiative – PFI – by the Labour/Liberal Democrat administration at Holyrood, and there’s now even talk that some of them may need to be knocked down and rebuilt. Related: Serious defects found at two more Edinburgh schools built using PFI Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com