Dear Gavin Williamson, are you sure schools will be safe in September? | Michael Rosen

Clear instructions are lacking in how students, staff and parents are meant to behave or dress when schools in England reopen

As I’m going through the ups and downs of recovering from the effects of this terrible virus, I’m worried about your plans for a return to school and university in September in England. I have offspring at both secondary school and university, so this feels very pressing.

One reason for my concern is that I’ve lost confidence in the government’s responses to Covid-19. I think you know as well as everyone else in government that the handling of this pandemic in England has been muddled and inconsistent. Bit by bit, it is being established by journalists and House of Commons select committees that, for example, the government imposed lockdown a week late, costing thousands of lives and, as with me, thousands contracting an illness that has long-term and irreversible effects.

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