PRIMARY schools could reopen next month as pressure grows on the government after a glum economic forecast. Some ministers are pushing for pupils to return to the classroom as soon as May 11, it is…
"We should be beginning to release the things that can be released - so primary schools should re-open and so should non-essential shops.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the Conservative Party, agreed, saying: “Schools are important because they enable parents to go back to work, particularly primary schools because those are the children who are too young to be left at home alone. Re-opening primary schools is the key to unlocking labour.”
But one Tory source said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had been “flip-flopping’ on the issue of re-opening schools, saying: “He’s not really a decision maker. One minute he seems to believe schools should re-open but the next he’s being overly cautious."It’s hard to work out where he stands on it from one day to the next but he is having to balance a lot of competing interests.”
The letter to the Prime Minister from the National Education Union read: “Given that in re-opening schools and colleges, you would be asking our members to take an increased risk, we believe they have a right to understand fully how any such proposal belongs within an overall Government strategy to defeat the virus.
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