The Government is being urged to make face-coverings compulsory in secondary schools when they finally return to class in September.
Teaching unions have called on ministers to look again at the rules so that pupils and staff have to wear masks after the summer holidays.
They claim that guidance for children over 11 to cover their faces on public transport and in shops shows they should be worn in schools and colleges too.
But the Government has ruled out making them mandatory in secondaries amid concerns they would make little difference when students and staff spend so much time together.
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