Calls for clarity on how ‘contingency framework’ areas chosen and how future decisions will be made
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 authorities in London and the south of England.
