Parents should send their children to primary school on Monday as long as they are open in their area according to PM Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson said there was “no doubt in my mind that schools are safe”.
He described school closures in London and the South East of England as “exceptional” due a fast-spreading new variant of Covid-19.
He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr the risk to children was “very, very low” and the benefit of education was “so huge”.
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the levels of risk in schools were “heightened compared to other areas” and that the new variant had “blown apart” the current strategies of control.
His union is calling for a brief period of remote learning so that new methods to suppress the virus can be put in place.
“If we don’t do this we are going to have chaotic opening and closing throughout the early part of the year while the vaccine takes hold, and that’s going to be more damaging to children’s welfare and more damaging to education than if we have a short period now and a planned and sustained return to school,” he said.
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