Data shows that Covid-19 is more of a risk for BAME people, those in poverty and older citizens. Many school support staff fall into these categories and yet have not featured in government modelling, says Jon Richards

With coronavirus lockdown easing I am severely torn. On the personal side, I will get to spend some time with my (young adult) children his week, for the first time in three months. But on the professional side I worry that the government is chancing its arm.

With just over a week before secondaries start expanding pupil numbers, there are huge risks that the progress made in reducing numbers of cases and deaths could be undermined.

Having heard the scientific evidence at first hand it seems clear that, overall, younger children do not get as sick from the virus as adults. So, I can see the logic of why the government chose to bring back the youngest in primary schools first.

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