over the summer. the secretary of state has briefed that the bubbles policy will be replaced with daily testing from september. will testing take place in schools, and if so, what support will they receive to do it? time and again, labour s called for mitigations to keep children learning, including ventilation and nightingale classrooms. why has this not happened? the number of children missing school is rising every single - day, and families are l at their wits end whilst the government is once again far too slow to react. - so, will the government act now and establish a rapid task- force with public health - directors and school leaders with a mandate to keep schools open safely? i last week, 375,000 pupils were off school through self isolation, and there has been a 40% increase in antidepressants being prescribed to under i7 year olds. given that children are extremely unlikely to suffer serious ill health as a result of catching covid and given the damage