Rebecca Long Bailey responds to schools reopening guidance

Rebecca Long Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Department for Education’s guidance for the reopening of schools, said:

“This guidance raises more questions than it answers leaving headteachers and school leaders unable to adequately plan for the reopening of their schools on this basis.

“There is still no realistic guidance for how social distancing will be kept in place with the age groups that will return first, how staff and families of children will be protected, or how class sizes of fifteen will be achieved with the resources schools have. 

“The Government must urgently convene education unions and the profession to create a workable plan for the reopening of schools when the science indicates it is safe to do so and which has the confidence of all those affected.”

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Notes to Editors

·       Class size of 15 pupils when primary schools returnhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52618187