The government has stated they want to keep schools open but what is the plan in order to do so? What measures are being taken to ensure that, should education staff be required to isolate, there’s a network of supply teachers ready to step in?
There’s a nationwide campaign for an army of NHS volunteers, but not for education. Why is a similar army of retired teachers or Ofsted inspectors not being recruited to support schools struggling to cope with staffing requirements?
Can we not have the same vision, the same passion, the same resource provision, for the education service as we do for the National Health Service?
Despite the government’s assurances, it seems to me we are moving, sadly, towards de facto school closures. I urge ministers to prove otherwise.
