Ministers told head teachers under pressure from parents and need ‘definitive regulations’

Confusion over the rules governing face coverings in classrooms is in danger of creating “mask anarchy” in schools in England, a leading Conservative has warned.

As schools prepare to welcome all pupils back into class next week, Robert Halfon, who chairs the influential cross-party Commons education committee, told ministers that head teachers were coming under pressure from parents over masks and called for “definitive regulations” to clear up the issue.

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