Not all back on 8th - union

GEOFF BARTON, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders union, said not all secondary students will return on March 8 due to the need to test them all for Covid-19.

He told BBC Breakfast: ‘It’s not going to be life as normal... MASH-style field hospitals essentially are having to be set up in order to do these lateral flow tests.

‘We shouldn’t expect that on the eighth all pupils will be back in, it will be from the eighth.’