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Sorry, I would say read the article but the title of the article is clear.
Seem that a few essex greater London schools are being 'closed' due to covid infections amongst pupils and staff. Seems the bubbles may not be working as the kids are mixing outside of school.
lynx-
Sorry, I would say read the article but the title of the article is clear.
I'd disagree. The title/headline alone makes it sound like the change is going to happen now, or very soon.
It's not, it's a proposed change for the new school year starting in September.
Who knows what the Covid infection situation will be in two months after a whole load of non-school related mixing (summer holidays, holiday camps, etc).
Any problems with year wide bubbles being taken out because of the current rules is only going to get worse over the remaining 3 and a bit weeks of term due to both the countrywide growth in cases and also due to some kids deciding to have fun and deliberately submitting positive results in order to get themselves out of school.
Greenbank
I'd recommend reading it as it's a bit more nuanced than just the info in the title.
The end to automatic isolation in England would be from September onwards for a start. And that's after the July 19th date that people are being led to believe will be the end of all Covid related restrictions (which simply isn't the case).
Of course, the Government are stalling on one of the most useful things they could do, right now (and could have done over a year ago), which is improve ventilation in schools, but there's obviously no juicy contracts for MPs/friends/family in that.