Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Hundreds of pupils across Greater Manchester are isolating once again after positive Covid cases.
In Bolton, where infection rates among pupils are the highest they've been throughout the entire pandemic, bubbles are bursting at primaries and secondaries.
And we've been made aware of children sent home in Bury, Wigan and Oldham too. With reports about data on how many school cases are linked to the Indian variant being deliberately withheld, teaching unions are calls for greater transparency.
What we do know is that in hotspots like Bolton, cases involving the variant are rising fastest among school-age children - with rates among five to nine year olds and