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'Keep them at home': Headteacher in Berkshire tells parents not to send their children to school amid soaring Covid cases as more councils look set to defy orders to open primaries despite assurances from Boris Johnson Boris Johnson has urged parents to send their children back to primaries that are set to reopen tomorrow PM said he had 'no doubt' that schools were safe but refused to rule out full shutdown in the weeks to come  Headteacher Gil Denham said she can't 'guarantee that pupils or staff will not be exposed' if they return Insisted in a letter that parents should only send their ch...

Arriving in a humble cardboard box…the great Oxford vaccine that could save the world is delivered to hospitals as Hancock says inoculation drive is 'accelerating' and AstraZeneca promises 2m doses a week 530,000 doses of jab will be available for rollout across UK from Monday with vulnerable groups as priority One of the first hospitals to take delivery of a batch was the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath Scientists blame vaccine's slow roll-out on lack of investment and no British medical manufacturers Sir John Bell said that two million doses of the vaccine will be available per ...

Businessman blasts 'absurd' decision to keep his daughter's school open in Covid hotspot while another stays shut 700 yards away - as London council tells head teachers to DEFY ministers and stay closed Primary schools in dozens of areas across London, Essex, Kent will not be allowed to reopen as planned  Vulnerable children and children of key workers will be only pupils allowed to attend the schools in person  Students in years 11 and 13 who are facing exams will physically return on January 11 as previously planned  Children in the other year groups will now have to wait an extra week u...

A teaching union has called for all schools across the country to be closed for the start of the new term after the government U-turned on its decision to keep some primaries in London open despite rising Covid cases. The government bowed to protests, legal pressure and scientific advice on New Year's Day after it initially omitted a number of the capital's boroughs from the forced closures. Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the u-turn was needed but said it was 'perplexing' it had got to this stage. She questioned why the same restrictions are no...

School leaders and councils demand clarity on primary closures Richard Adams, Nicola Davis and Peter Walker © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Julian Claxton/Alamy Stock Photo School leaders and local authorities have demanded the government explain its decisions over which primary schools should stay open in England. Gavin Williamson revealed on Wednesday that secondary schools and colleges would be closed to most pupils for the first two weeks of January. The education secretary shocked many parents by instructing primary schools to also remain closed within 50 local ...