Schools: Coronavirus

(asked on 18th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of parents who (a) will, (b) will not and (c) do not know whether they will send children back to school when schools reopen during the covid-19 outbreak on 1 June 2020.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 28th May 2020

From the week commencing 1 June 2020 at the earliest, the Department will be asking primary schools to welcome back children in nursery, reception, Year 1 and Year 6, alongside priority groups.

Children and young people in eligible year groups are strongly encouraged to attend (where there are no shielding concerns for the child or their household), so that they can gain the educational and wellbeing benefits of attending. From 1 June, schools should resume taking their attendance register and continue to complete the online educational setting status form to provide daily updates on how many children are in school.

Parents will not be fined for non-attendance at this time, and schools will not be held to account for attendance levels.

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