The Government has relaxed physical distancing recommendations from two metres to just one for adults in classrooms in schools participating in a summer education programme for children with intellectual disabilities.
Public health guidelines for the programmes, published yesterday evening, advise that physical distancing "of at least one metre" should be maintained in the classroom "as far as possible".
However children taking part in the programmes will not be expected to comply with any social distancing. The summer programmes are due to begin in just over a week's time.
The guidelines state that while physical distancing is recommended to reduce the spread of infection in the workplace, social distancing in schools running the