School heating 'left on during the heatwave'

'COMPLEX' PROBLEM 'IS BEING MONITORED'

- By TESS RUSHIN

A concerned parent claims the heating at their children's school has been left on for two years, including during the recent heatwave.

The parent, who did not want to be named, claimed staff and pupils at Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy, in Loughborough, had had to contend with the constant heat, and had "reported feeling ill from being so warm in school".

St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi Academy Trust (CMAT), which oversees the school, knew about the issue, but nothing had been done about it, the parent has claimed.

In response, the trust told the Mercury it was "aware of complex heating issues affecting some parts of the school" and that it had "had engaged consultants to resolve the matter.