
January 28, 2025
How To Adapt A Modular Building For A Classroom Or Nursery
The government has pledged to create over 3,000 extra childcare places in England by September 2025. To assist with this rapid expansion, a £140 funding pot has been set up to provide grants for primary schools to adapt unused buildings or create extra space for nursery facilities. The first round of school-based nursery (SBN) funding […]

January 23, 2025
New Government Grants Available For School-Based Nurseries
The government has announced plans to deliver 3,000 school-based nurseries (SBN) to ensure that more children can have access to the best start in life. Capital grants are available to eligible applicants within the education sector, to enable them to put the necessary facilities in place. The first funding round of £150,000 has already been […]

December 2, 2024
How Did Temporary HORSA Classrooms Revolutionise Education?
The key to effective education is providing a robust, versatile and comfortable environment to allow students to effectively focus. The first step to achieving this is through the design and construction of school buildings, and with RAAC issues forcing many classes into temporary structures, it is essential that these buildings are similarly fit for purpose […]

November 27, 2024
Classroom Hire
Looking for a temporary or quick school classroom Hire? Cabinlocator offer Classroom hire with some buildings currently in stock, give us a call on 01757 282319 for current list. A previous hire client used some of our fleet after their school had suffered from flash flooding and they needed a quick solution to move all […]

August 13, 2024
The Advantages of Portable Cabins for Schools and Nurseries
As pupils anxiously await their exam results this summer, many teachers and school administrators will be facing a different kind of anxiety: will their school have enough adequate space to teach students effectively come September? The multiple issues facing school heads With the new term just a few weeks away, many schools are facing multiple […]

June 11, 2024
How Will The Schools Estate Crisis Be Tackled For The New Term?
The summer academic term is already drawing to a close, bringing a chance for teachers and other education workers to draw breath and reflect on the past year. For many, their overriding experience will have been juggling their primary role as an educator with the challenge of finding adequate and safe space to teach pupils. […]

May 13, 2024
How Can Modular Classrooms Help You Manage Large Intakes?
With a growing number of school-age children in Britain and a reducing number of schools, the concerns about increasing class sizes, strains on older school buildings and ensuring every pupil gets the full education they deserve that were already around have only increased. According to the most recent government education statistics, 73,800 more students entered […]

March 21, 2024
Modular Buildings: The Answer For Dilapidated UK Schools?
A significant proportion of the UK’s school buildings are in a poor condition, and despite some investment the situation looks set to get worse. According to a new report by Building Design, government spending on education is lower than at any point for the last 17 years, even taking into account emergency funding for schools […]

January 31, 2024
Modular Buildings: The Answer To The UK’s Classroom Crisis?
A new BBC investigation has revealed the shocking state of Britain’s school buildings. It is already widely known that hundreds of school buildings have been rendered uninhabitable because of the presence of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (Raac). However this may be just the tip of the iceberg. An episode of the BBC current affairs programme […]

December 4, 2023
Raac Crisis Grows As Northern Ireland School Deemed Unsafe
The crumbling concrete crisis that came to a head in September this year continues to rumble on, with a growing list of public sector buildings affected. At the start of the new school term, dozens of schools and nurseries across the country had to turn to portable modular buildings to provide classroom space. The existing […]

September 19, 2023
250 Temporary Classrooms Are Ordered In Wake Of RAAC Crisis
The government has made 250 temporary classrooms available for use in England’s schools after many were forced to find alternative buildings due to the RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete) crisis. This has led to a surge in demand for modular and portable buildings that can be installed in a matter of days, The Guardian reports. […]

August 29, 2023
Why Modular Buildings Can Help The UK’s Toxic School Crisis
The former health secretary Matt Hancock has said that the UK is facing a ‘slow-burning crisis’ from the threat of asbestos that is still present in many of the schools and hospitals around the country. Despite the fact that the use of asbestos was banned in the UK in 1999, the toxic material still causes […]