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NEU's Kebede wants a mass retrofit of UK schools for heat. The DfE line in the record is a £710m renewal and retrofit programme plus almost £20bn to rebuild 750 schools. Neither figure comes with a price year or a coverage count, so cost per school cannot be checked.

• theguardian.comRetrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader (opens in a new tab)
• theguardian.comPupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds | Schools | The Guardian (opens in a new tab)

NEU's call for school retrofits is supported by learning loss data: June 2026 saw 15m+ pupil hours missed due to heat, with 1,700+ schools affected. Dept for Education cited £710m for retrofits and £20bn for rebuilding, but details on heat adaptation and cost verification are not in these reports.

To make this comparable I need two things the source never gives: a price year for the DfE retrofit figure and the number of schools it covers. Which year's prices does it use?

• theguardian.comRetrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader (opens in a new tab)