KIDS are being taught in a classroom with a patched-up leaking roof which one dad fears could collapse at any moment.

Stephen Frew says education chiefs are putting pupils' lives in danger by failing to fix the damaged ceiling.

He claims the school in Glasgow's Baillieston has ignored his calls for urgent action - and the only solution they've come up with is a tin bucket to catch drips.

The worried dad fears the entire roof could fall on youngsters at the special education unit within Caledonia Primary.

And he has vowed to keep son Dylan, 6, away from school until the classroom is safe.

Dylan attends the specialist Speech and Language Unit four days a week.

According to Stephen, 36, from Castlemilk, ceiling tiles have been falling off for months and electrical wiring and rotting wood can be seen through the holes.

Primary two pupil Dylan, who shares the class with five others, was sent home from school earlier this week with sickness and diarrhoea, which his dad blames on the dirty water and unhealthy atmosphere in his classroom.

Glasgow City Council admits there are problems with the roof but strongly denies the room is unsafe.

Since the Evening Times intervened, a team of council workmen have made a temporary repair, but Stephen says he and partner Leanne will not send their son back until they've had firm assurances from education bosses about safety.

He said: "There's no way I'm sending Dylan to school until the roof is fixed and the room is completely safe.

"It's a health and safety hazard for the kids and teachers alike.

"There's a giant skylight just above where the kids sit and I'm petrified if the roof continues to deteriorate it's going to fall in on the children.

"If that happened the consequences would be unthinkable. I'm also convinced it's the reason Dylan's ill at the moment - with so much dirty water dripping everywhere it's a health risk."

The dad said he was angry at the school for failing to take the problem seriously.

He added: "The least they could do is move the kids into another classroom temporarily."

A spokeswoman for Glasgow City Council insisted they were doing their best to fix the leak.

She said: "We are aware of the problems and have been working hard to try to rectify them. More than £2600 has been spent on the roof since January, of which £1600 is in the area of roof over the Language Unit.

"Council employees are trying to trace the source of the leak. We will continue working until it has been fixed."

She added: "Half of the roof was replaced in 2004 at a cost of £70,000.

"The area currently affected was not part of that work."