CRUMBLING Liverpool schools which missed out on multi-million pound transformations could still yet get government cash for revamps – if they are deemed in dire need of repair.

The coalition government axed Labour’s £350m Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme last summer meaning 26 city secondaries and special schools lost out on much needed new buildings or refurbishment.

And in a further blow the Government told Liverpool council it was not prepared to match up to £75m the local authority has pledged to raise through sales of assets, empty school buildings, private finance and borrowing.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb wrote to council officials saying the Government would provide just £12.34m a year until 2015 for routine maintenance of the city’s 170 schools, which equates to £72,588 if split equally.

But yesterday Education Secretary Michael Gove appeared to throw the schools a potential lifeline.

This came in his parliamentary announcement that Government officials would be reviewing the state of disrepair facing schools up and down the country.

The review of the state of schools would help identify those most in need of urgent repair, he said.

But the Government would cut funding to local authorities which have reduced costs as a result of academies being set up in their areas.