What is the point of closing schools if the govt then expand the categories of key workers? This will substantially increase numbers of children in school; increase public health risk to communities & children of NHS/social care staff & reduce ability of teachers to remote teach. https://twitter.com/claire_horwell/status/1346820176575082500

Here's @IndependentSage's new safer schools paper looking at what the government can/must do: to mitigate harms of school closure on ALL children; to ensure continuation of education and to ensure that schools are covid-safe 4 all before #schoolsreopening https://www.independentsage.org/a-safe-schools-policy-for-re-opening-education-as-soon-as-possible-and-mitigating-the-harms-of-closure/

Another chaotic and confusing u-turn by Dept for Education because (once again) they realised, belatedly, they were undermining their own policies and risking public health https://twitter.com/cyclingkev/status/1347858677328453633?s=21 https://twitter.com/cyclingkev/status/1347858677328453633