Dr Jenny Harries says a well-controlled school environment with the knowledge there now is about COVID-19 'should be a safe one'.
"We also know that children very rarely get serious disease and get hospitalised, and when children do get infection it is usually very mild and sometimes asymptomatic.How many have died or tested positive where you live - and where the latest hotspots are
Professor Whitty acknowledged that children will undoubtedly bring households together who wouldn't come into contact if schools were closed - which will"put pressure" on the R number.
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