Wednesday February 3, 2021, 2:29 PM
Schools and other educational settings closed on 25 January, following the outbreak of coronavirus and subsequent lockdown. Credit: ITV Channel TV
The children of essential workers in Guernsey will be able to return to school from Monday (8 January).
The decision has been made since a new facility opened on the East Arm of North Beach, expanding the island's testing capability.
However, the change only applies to students where both parents are essential workers, and working from home is not an option.
We will still need to be really careful - balance the need to support these children and their parents with minimising the contacts people have with each other, so this will be for a smaller group of children than was the case in the original lockdown. In the past, we made exceptions for certain jobs such as nurses, doctors and teachers - this will not be the case this time.