Wellington parents will be relieved this week after the town's schools reopened in time for term to start.

It comes as around 100 schools across the country have failed to open because of RAAC, a type of concrete which has failed to stand the test of time.

However Somerset Unitary Councillor Andy Govier said they had recognised that although older parts of Court Fields school were not in danger of collapse, but might need attention.

In Taunton Selworthy School failed to open on time after RAAC concrete was discovered.

Local Liberal Democrats have blamed the government for the situation. Gideon Amos, the LibDem Parliamentary candidate for Taunton and Wellington said: “The Government must come clean about what schools in our area are affected by crumbling concrete. 

“The secrecy about where these schools are located is creating worry and concern for all parents and teachers. 

“Pupil safety must always be paramount, and parents want to be reassured that they are not sending their child back to school in an unsafe building that may collapse.  

“Ministers must release information about each and every school that has been affected so far, and also set out a timetable to complete inspections on all other schools suspected to have RAAC. 

“The truth is that we should never have got to this point and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s decision in 2021 to cut the programme to fix RAAC in these building has failed our hard-working schools on a massive scale.

“The Government has therefore known about this crumbling concrete for years, but time and again has denied our children the money needed to stop schools from collapsing completely."

A full list of affected schools is expected to be published by the government this week.