UK PM Boris working towards reopening all schools in Sept

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is working with education minister Gavin Williamson to ensure all schools can open in September and to provide support packages to help children catch up on lost learning, his office said on Saturday.

Detailed work is underway with schools, councils and unions to make sure all children are able to return in September if it is safe to do so, a Downing Street source said.

Schools shut to most pupils in

March due to the coronavirus pandemic but selected age groups have been able to return since the beginning of June, although some educators decided not to reopen because they said it was not safe.

Johnson has asked for measures to be drawn up to help children over the summer and further into the future, said the statement.

UK QUARANTINE RULES MAY CHANGE: SUNAK Britain’s government is looking at options for its two-week quarantine for people entering the country and might be able to make changes to the rules, finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday.

“We all want to see travel open again, of course we do, and like everything else we want to make sure we have the right measures at the right time informed by the science and everything else that we have to consider,” Sunak told BBC television.

The government has come under heavy pressure from the travel industry and other sectors over the quarantine policy which it introduced last week.

Airlines said it will hammer jobs and tourism.