Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the guidance published by the Government on 10 May 2020 entitled Our plan to rebuild, if he will publish the risk analysis that identified which children should return to school from 1 June 2020.

The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) established the Children’s Task and Finish Working Group to provide consolidated scientific health advice to government. This advice has been used, alongside other sources of information, to inform decision making on the wider opening of schools.

An initial overview of scientific advice and information is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overview-of-scientific-information-on-coronavirus-covid-19

The papers from SAGE meetings are being published in tranches. The first batch was released on 20th March 2020 and a second on 5^th May 2020. Further batches will be released regularly.

The list of papers to be released to date is available by following the link below, including a number of schools-related papers. This list will be updated to reflect papers considered at future meetings:

https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response.