direct to your inboxThe government will announce later today whether the reopening of secondary schools will be delayed.Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will set out the proposals, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock.He is expected to make the announcement following a meeting chaired by Boris Johnson.Mr Hancock told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The Education Secretary will be setting out his proposals later today.
Clearly we want to protect education as much as possible.“But the new variant does make it much easier for this disease to transmit.
So we are going to protect education as much as we can.” It comes after reports in the TES that ministers agreed to delay the reopening of secondary schools earlier this week.
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