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<p>The Vaughan Primary School, Harrow, has been delivered by the ESFA through the
Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP). We have completed checks of schools delivered
through this programme and confirm that the cladding on this school is not Aluminium
Composite Material (ACM).</p><p> </p><p>The Department is undertaking an analysis
of all school buildings, seeking information from all bodies responsible for schools,
to identify those where external cladding has been used (and its type) for schools
with four storeys or more. This exercise will cover school buildings of all ages,
whether they have been funded through DfE central programmes or not.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>All schools must comply with strict building and fire safety regulations. It
has always been the case that where a fire risk assessment required for any new building
recommends sprinklers are installed to keep children safe, they must be fitted.</p><p>The
Department holds information on PSBP schools as these are managed centrally by the
ESFA. Of the 260 schools in phase one of the PSBP, 7<ins class="ministerial">4</ins><del
class="ministerial">5</del> schools include sprinkler systems. As schools under phase
two of the PSBP are still in the early design stage, it is not yet clear which may
require sprinklers at this time.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">The number of schools
in phase one with sprinklers installed had previously been reported as 75. However,
further analysis of the data has confirmed that a joint project between two primary
schools in Wiltshire had inadvertently been counted as two schools, when they should
only have been counted once. Therefore, we can confirm that the correct number of
schools fitted with sprinklers, under phase one of PSBP, is 74.</ins></p><p> </p><p>Until
recently, schools developed under the Free Schools programme were managed by the individual
Free School proposer groups, via their appointed building contractors. Due to this,
the Department does not hold information on the number of Free School buildings with
and without sprinklers installed.</p><p>All schools must have robust safety plans
to follow in the event of a fire and have very strong safety features in case a fire
breaks out. This includes the fact that they are not occupied overnight and are generally
low rise with multiple exit routes.</p>
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