Coronavirus: Disease Control
(asked on 7th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Lord Bethell, of 6 October 2020, Official Report, column 544 on Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 , if he will publish the research from the frontline on children and the rule of six.
The Government’s priority is for children to attend school and for further education colleges to remain open, in recognition of the important role that such settings play in children’s development and in supporting and sustaining local communities. We also recognise the importance of exercise for children to help them develop and maintain their mental and physical wellbeing.
Studies have shown that such settings can sustain high levels of COVID security and are a low transmission risk. For example, Public Health England’s ‘SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in educational settings’ which is available at the following link: