Parents, governors and retired teachers could administer Covid tests in schools despite a massive revolt over ministers’ 11th-hour plans.
Volunteers may be used instead of teachers to carry out rapid testing at secondary schools in the New Year, schools minister Nick Gibb said yesterday.
But major education unions threatened to scupper the programme. They announced that schools will have their backing if they refuse to cooperate with the ‘inoperable’ testing plans.
The Government has announced that around 5.5million secondary pupils in England will be home-schooled for a week in January and only called on site for Covid-19 tests.
Volunteers may be used instead of teachers to carry out rapid testing at secondary schools in the New Year, schools minister Nick Gibb said yesterday. Pictured, St Columbia s High School in Scotland