Headteachers beg parents to reconsider if they’re a ‘key worker’ as some threaten to SUE schools

Almost all of the UK’s schools have opened to serve coronavirus key workers but it appears many parents heeded the warning to keep their children at home, a survey of 3,500 headteachers revealed today. The National Association of Headteachers has said that less than 20 per cent of all schoolchildren were dropped off today – … Read more

Headteachers beg parents to reconsider if they’re a ‘key worker’ as some threaten to SUE schools

Parents have today been urged to keep their children at home unless ‘absolutely necessary’ as schools were threatened with litigation after rejecting applications and the row over Boris Johnson’s ‘vague’ key workers list rumbled on. Headteachers have been ‘overwhelmed’ with demand for emergency places with education experts estimating that two million pupils  – a quarter of … Read more