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Schools in @LBHF and beyond have been heroic throughout 2020 - continuing to reassure and inspire our young people in the most difficult of circumstances. Today, they were yet again treated with contempt by Gavin Williamson... 1/6 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/dec/30/return-to-english-secondary-schools-and-universities-to-be-delayed?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Having had COVID testing sprung upon them in the final hours of last term, shattered Heads and school staff (now working as Xmas break effectively cancelled) tuned in to hear Gavin’s statement, hoping for clarity on return to school in light of increasing COVID concerns... 2/6 https://twitter.com/schoolsweek/status/1340197176295743488
Instead, he somehow managed to make the situation even worse. His statement was stunning, in so far as it left us all; local authorities, schools, governors and parents alike with way more questions than answers... 3/6 https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1344322376301948929
Knowing the drill by now, we knew not to check emails or the DfE website first for more info, but twitter, where we found lists and maps of the affected areas, without any rationale or data, and this confusing situation across London... 4/6
This is yet another avoidable situation from a government that is refusing to listen; the rushed/botched return to school in the summer, the exams/results fiasco and failing to provide Free School Meals to poverty stricken young people in a health and economic crisis... 5/6 https://twitter.com/larryculhane/status/1319368456152715268
All of us in @LBHF are truly grateful to our schools for the role they have played throughout this pandemic. Hopefully, the picture will become clearer for them. Meanwhile, we’ll continue to do everything we can to support them - I just wish Gavin Williamson would do so too. 6/6
