Teaching unions and cancer charities are urging the Welsh government to create a database recording asbestos in school buildings.
The new campaign comes as councils across the country begin work to review their management of asbestos.
Wales’s education minister Leighton Andrews has ordered the review which falls short of the national audit which campaigners want.
However, he says he will assess the situation when he has received the local authorities’ responses.
The issue was pushed high up the political agenda after 900 pupils were moved out of Cwmcarn High School in Caerphilly, after fears about asbestos. An investigation is now underway.
Now, assembly members, legal experts and campaigners have come together to support the new Parents’ Right to Know campaign, which has been launched by Asbestos in Schools Wales. It has political support and is backed by teaching unions and the Tenovus cancer charity.
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