Schools: Coronavirus

(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent information his Department holds on how many schools in England are operating on a rota system whereby not all school years are attending school on each school day.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 19th November 2020

The Government’s priority is to keep education and childcare settings fully open wherever possible. The Contain framework, and the educational tiers within it, is in place to help manage COVID-19 prevalence locally.

We took a national decision to prioritise education and childcare during the current period of national restrictions and schools continue to remain open for all children and young people as they have since the start of the autumn term. We will therefore not be moving up the tiers in any local area during the period of national lockdown – this means no move to rotas in secondary schools.

Any school management issues which are not about managing COVID-19 transmission should be referred to the relevant Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC)’s office. RSC offices will make every effort to support schools to continue to provide face to face education to pupils in their schools.

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