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Just how this new term in this new year will pan out looks anything but certain. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. joining me now is tom richmond who is the founder and director of the non—partisan edsk think tank, former teacher and government advisor. he is also a former teacher and government adviser. thank you so much forjoining us. what are your thoughts as schools go back? it is a very difficult — thoughts as schools go back? it is a very difficult time. _ thoughts as schools go back? it is a ...

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And staff testing will be increased. our reporter, simonjones, has more details. theyre getting into the christmas spirit at this care home in norwich, but the shadow of omicron looms. the home, though, says its determined not to close to visitors. id be very sad if that was to happen. our main goal is, is that our doors will remain open. and weve listened to the families. weve listened to our residents. and what they really missed was, it was that contact. and what weve done is that were still ...

Doing for treatments for covid—19? i think things have moved forward so fast since we first learned about this virus. treatment has got better and better and there are more options and antivirals and steroids and the vaccinations, luckily we are in a better place than we were, but still very serious. ok. in a better place than we were, but still very serious.— still very serious. ok, thank you very much _ still very serious. ok, thank you very much indeed. _ care homes in england are also be...

Restrictions over the festive period — but say they may need to, come january. care homes in england are also being affected by the rise in omicron cases.from wednesday, the number of people allowed to visit each resident will be limited to 3 — and staff testing will be increased. our reporter, simonjones, has more details. theyre getting into the christmas spirit at this care home in norwich, but the shadow of omicron looms. the home, though, says its determined not to close to visitors. id...

Would be tested when tests were available and i set about building the testing capacity to be able to deliver on that. the evidence has shown that the strongest route of the virus is community transmission and so, it was staff testing that was the most important thing for keeping people safe and care homes and obviously again for that, we needed the testing capacity. matt hancock denied blaming the chancellor and others for blocking orders of protective equipment. he said he had no idea why domi...

In march that people in the hospital would be tested before the went back into care homes? we set out a policy that people would be tested when tests were available and i set about building the testing capacity to be able to deliver on that. the evidence has shown that the strongest route of the virus is community transmission and so, it was staff testing that was the most important thing for keeping people safe and care homes and obviously again for that, we needed the testing capacity. matt ha...

Capacity to be able to deliver on that. the evidence has shown that the strongest route of the virus is community transmission and so, it was staff testing that was the most important thing for keeping people safe and care homes and obviously again for that, we needed the testing capacity. matt hancock denied blaming the chancellor and others for blocking orders of protective equipment. he said he had no idea why dominic cummings had been so withering. did you know that he wanted this? yes, beca...

About building the testing capacity to be able to deliver on that. the evidence has shown that the strongest route of the virus is community transmission and so, it was staff testing that was the most important thing for keeping people safe and care homes and obviously again for that, we needed the testing capacity. matt hancock denied blaming the chancellor and others for blocking orders of protective equipment. he said he had no idea why dominic cummings had been so withering. did you know tha...

That that person did not have the disease, that was the clinical advice. at the same time, the clinicians were worried because it took four days to turn a test around, if you leave someone in hospital in those four days, they might catch covid and go back to a care home with a negative test result but having caught it and so the advice was the most important thing was infection prevention and control in care homes and the evidence has shown that the strongest route of the virus into care homes u...