Schools face a “monumental crisis” at the centre of a second lockdown, with the lack of test and tracing forcing them to shut their gates.
The Government has again insisted classrooms will return “in full” in just four weeks’ time, despite regional flare-ups. But experts warn the test-and-trace system is not yet good enough to stop another wave of the virus that reopening schools could fuel.
Tory ministers maintained yesterday it was “not up for debate” that pupils would be back in class in England in September. But Local Government Minister Simon Clarke admitted the test-and-trace programme still needed to improve and was “maturing all the time”.
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