Academies: Coronavirus

(asked on 15th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has written to academy schools requesting them to remain open throughout the second national lockdown and the latest tier 3 period in boroughs where the local authority had asked schools to consider closing.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

There have been 3 cases involving writing directly to schools asking them to remain open throughout the second national lockdown and the latest tier 3 period, where some local authorities had asked, or were considering asking, schools to move to remote education provision for the remainder of the current school term.

The 3 cases are:

  • Royal London Borough of Greenwich – A letter was sent out to all schools in Greenwich on 14 December.
  • Waltham Forest – A letter was sent out to all schools in Waltham Forest on 15 December.
  • Islington – A letter was sent out to all schools in Islington on 15 December.

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