Education heads write to Gavin Williamson in protest at lack of guidance for next school year
Parents are angry and confused by the government’s shifting messages over how schools deal with Covid outbreaks among pupils, according to a headteachers’ leader, who says “exhausted” staff are unlikely to get a break over the summer.
Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said comments by MPs and special advisers meant teachers were being blamed for the huge rise in pupils in England having to self-isolate, while ministers dangled the prospect of the isolation rules being scrapped.
