Schools should not reopen until the government can prove that pupils and staff will be safe, Salford and Eccles MP Rebecca Long-Bailey has said, joining union calls for a delay in the planned reopening of schools on Monday.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last week that he intended to open primary schools for pupils in reception, Year 1 and Year 6 on June 1.
But MP Long-Bailey - who also serves as Labour’s shadow education minister - said she wanted more assurances that pupils, staff and their families would be safe, and that the coronavirus was contained, before a wider re-opening.
She told a Salford Unison meeting last night: “I don’t think there’s any parent or member of school staff who doesn’t want their children to return to