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Parents today reacted angrily to reports they will have to swab their children twice a week using lateral flow tests after unions refused to let staff take on the responsibility.
Twitter users claimed the plan was unworkable and that if mass testing is rolled out in schools it should be done by trained professionals. Swabs taken by amateurs rather than trained nurses are believed to be less accurate.
One wrote: No way am I testing my kids twice a week. It was a massive battle just to get one test on my son. Autistic children just don t understand and it causes them massive distress. I m not putting him through that twice a week!
Children in England will have lost 850million hours of in-person teaching by the time schools are due to reopen on March 8, the Children s Commissioner warned Boris Johnson today.
Anne Longfield revealed the stark impact of the coronavirus lockdown on vulnerable and at-risk youngsters as she took aim at the Prime Minister over a lack of investment.
In a blunt assessment of Government policy the outgoing commissioner warned the Prime Minister his plan to level up Britain would remain just a slogan unless he stumps up cash on a large scale.
She suggested he emulate new US president Joe Biden and introduce family-orientated fiscal stimulus and criticised plans to axe a £20 increase to Universal Credit.
An academy chief today cast doubt on optimistic plans to get all pupils in England back into school at the start of March as he warned dates were being pulled out of thin air.
Dr Mike Tildesley and Dr Ed Hill, of Warwick University and advisers to SAGE, said their study was not evidence that schools were safe and called for reopening to be cautious .