Government did too little, too late over schools - YEP letters

No ONE could disagree that children’s education is important for both educational achievement, mental health and welfare.

But the lives of people have to be the overriding factor to be taken into account.

It is not rocket science to realise that a child coming from a family with Covid infection, which may be asymptomatic, will pass the virus on to other children who will take it home to more families.

And it is an absolute disgrace that teachers, many of whom are aged over 50, are not given the same priority for vaccination as care workers.

What is wrong with cancelling the February school half-term holiday and taking a week off the early Easter break this year so that schools may start later this winter?

The trouble with our Government is that it does too little too late.

It appeared, before the latest national lockdown was announced, that it was waiting to see whether a school had such widespread infection that it had to close after it had infected most of the community.