{"id":6187,"date":"2020-04-24T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:52:56","slug":"all-known-asbestos-to-be-removed-from-newcastle-east-public-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/all-known-asbestos-to-be-removed-from-newcastle-east-public-school\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL KNOWN ASBESTOS TO BE REMOVED FROM NEWCASTLE EAST PUBLIC SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All known asbestos is due to be removed from Newcastle East Public School buildings by the end of the year, in a win for the school community.<br \/>\nThe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.nsw.gov.au\/la\/papers\/pages\/notice-tracking-details.aspx?pk=8875\">\u00a0calls for asbestos removal<\/a>\u00a0were launched by State Member for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp and the school community earlier this year, after it was revealed on the first day of Term 1 that friable asbestos had been found in the school\u2019s heritage building during its renovation over the summer holidays.<br \/>\nThe Department\u2019s action on this was queried through recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.nsw.gov.au\/lcdocs\/other\/13324\/Compiled%20supplementary%20questions%20-%20PC3%20-%20Education%20and%20Early%20Childhood%20Learning%20Further%20Budget%20Estimates%202019-2020.pdf\">Budget Estimates<\/a>, where Mr Crakanthorp asked several questions through the Upper House.<br \/>\nIn response, it was confirmed that all known asbestos will be progressively removed from buildings by the end of 2020, while artificial turf will be laid on already-encapsulated asbestos in the school playground.<br \/>\nIn addition, Mr Crakanthorp\u2019s questioning revealed that $1.4 million has been spent on removing asbestos from the school to 25 March 2020, while almost $150,000 has been spent on replacing potentially contaminated and subsequently destroyed library books and sports equipment.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a big win for the Newcastle East school community, and after the start to the year they had it will be very welcome,\u201d Mr Crakanthorp said.<br \/>\n\u201cI need to thank Minister Sarah Mitchell for acting on mine and the parents\u2019 calls to have the known asbestos removed from this school.<br \/>\n\u201cUltimately what we needed was some peace of mind for this community, and I\u2019m thrilled that the parent body and I have been able to work together to achieve this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All known asbestos is due to be removed from Newcastle East Public School buildings by the end of the year, in a win for the school community. The\u00a0calls for asbestos removal\u00a0were launched by State Member for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp and the school community earlier this year, after it was revealed on the first day of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/all-known-asbestos-to-be-removed-from-newcastle-east-public-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ALL KNOWN ASBESTOS TO BE REMOVED FROM NEWCASTLE EAST PUBLIC SCHOOL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}