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Article: More than 3,000 pupils taught in prefab cabins; Anger over school repairs backlog.
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2009
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Byline: KELLY BARKER
PUPILS are being packed into portable classrooms amid a backlog of school building repairs.
At least 90 schools in North Wales are relying on 157 temporary cabins - with some dating back to the 1960s.
More than 3,000 children across the region are having lessons in them, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
Conservative Parliamentary candidate for the Vale of Clwyd Matt Wright requested the details from the six cash-strapped local authorities.
They showed the worst hit counties were Denbighshire and Wrexham as maintenance work mounts.
Mr Wright branded the data ...