School’s reopening - National Education Union

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Today the National Education Union has published a report detailing the questions we been asking Government about the impact on children, families, staff and the wider community of proposals to reopen schools more widely.

Our report outlines the urgent questions that must be answered before any easing of the current lockdown.
Over the last six weeks, we have written three times to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Education outlining concern that members and parents and carers of children in our schools have raised about the crisis.

We have asked the Government to share its evidence and modelling. We have asked for the publication of peer-reviewed science.

So far, there has been no response.

This is not acceptable. These questions must be addressed before any wider opening of schools is proposed or no educator or parent can have confidence in such proposals.

Please read and share this report far and wide.
When the Government announces its plan tomorrow you and your family can use it to scrutinise for yourselves whether these urgent questions have been sufficiently addressed.

Stay safe,
Mary Bousted
Joint General Secretary
National Education Union

Kevin Courtney
Joint General Secretary

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It is an interesting report - I entirely agree with the tests at the end for wider school opening.

The problem with it it is very much a pre emptive report without knowing what the Governments plan actually is. Personally I would be shocked if tomorrow a comprehensive reopening of schools is announced. And neither should it be certainly not until September.

Indeed the first report says this:

Based on these results, we have to caution against an unlimited reopening of schools and kindergartens in the present situation

So it is a sensible look at how a wide school opening would be

It doesnt nothing though to say that a cautious and slow approach shouldnt be taken from the start of June with sending some children back