Caerphilly Council has spend more than half a million pounds dealing (or not dealing) with asbestos at a single school, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The South Wales Argus report: 

CAERPHILLY council will have spent at least £643,364 dealing with the issues of asbestos at Cwmcarn High School come the end of the school year.

This includes the costs of surveys, transporting pupils to alternative accommodation in Ebbw Vale and keeping the vacant school secure.

But nothing has yet been done to manage or remove asbestos at the site.

You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.