Covid: Was Matt Hancock right to push for schools to close?
The move had huge costs – socially, emotionally and academically, so could schools have been kept open? …
At the time, the vaccine programme had just started rolling out, and the teaching unions were once again putting up objections to having schools fully open, arguing it would put their members at risk. Although throughout the pandemic teachers were at no higher risk of being infected than average. Shop workers and health staff, for example, were much more likely to get Covid.
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