year. and i want to thank school leaders and teachers for everything they have done. testing is you have mentioned, i made sure we had enough tests for this first week, where secondary school pupils will be tested in the school. we had an alternative route for those tests to be available, that is a really good thing, we would have had a very different conversation today if the tests were not available. i was a was concerned about staff absences and i sent out a call to action before the holiday period and we had lots of colleagues coming forward from my own departmentjoining that call to action to help with staff shortages. and co2 monitors, we delivered 350,000 co2 monitors. and now we are delivering, on top of the 1000 air purifiers, before the holidays which went to special schools and alternative education,
and through this week, yes, temperatures closer to where we would expect at the time of year. i ll be back in half an hour. good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and sally nugent. our headlines today. every secondary school pupil in england will be tested for covid before going back to class amid fears of staff shortages. come through. a new way of keeping children safe in high crime areas meet the adult chaperones helping them to and from school. in sport. a thriller at stamford bridge. chelsea and liverpool share the points much to the delight of the premier league leaders manchester city. wearing a dress of shimering white. from the queen s coronation
violence across the streets, but we do know that there are people out there, there are the dangers of the world out there and you want to be protected in such situations. so the fact that these chaperones are out here now, it does make everybody feel ten times safer. i think that every student should get the chance to go home safely and not to worry about anything like that. it is more scary to go to a stranger and ask for help, so to know there are trained professionals there, that we know they are there to protect us and we can go to them. the walk to and from school can be perilous for teenagers in big cities. an 18 year old was stabbed to death barely a mile from here a few weeks ago. this park is a couple of minutes away from the school so lots of people will congregate here and they might play football or cricket in the summer. but it is also a potential dangerous flashpoint, because there is a lot of criminal activity here, drug dealing, weapons have been stashed here, so that i
in england and wales. the odd shower. still mild for the last day this week. cold in scotland. overnight, the front continues southwards, petering out but bringing snow across the pennines into the lake district, north wales and peak district. substantial snow in scotland and with gales here, we are looking at blizzards and drifting and it will be a cold night in the northern half of the country. the cold air will move south tomorrow. in some high crime inner city areas, children are being helped to and from school by adult chaperones. it s based on a successful scheme in chicago and is being piloted in the west midlands. the schools taking part have been chosen based on police intelligence, as our midlands correspondent phil mackie reports. now, guys, you can come through.
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