There are no plans for schools to open through the summer holiday, the Government has announced. Schools have been closed since March 20 due to the Covid-19 outbreak, with many parents forced to home educate.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced at today's daily coronavirus briefing that school across the UK won't reopen during the summer holiday.
He said: “I think we recognise the challenges that anyone who’s a parent of trying to instil social distancing in small children, and we have to understand really that sort of broad context. “We are in a stage in terms of dealing with this pandemic where there are an awful lot of questions that sadly, people would love to have answers to, but in terms of how the virus develops we have