The move had huge costs - socially, emotionally and academically, so could schools have been kept open?
pushed to have schools closed in January 2021, messages published by the Daily Telegraph suggest.
The BBC has not seen or independently verified the WhatsApp messages, so cannot judge the context in which they were sent. But this option was, in the end, rejected, and schools in England closed until early March. The country started to see infection rates fall quite sharply and soon we had one of Europe's lowest levels of Covid.
In the following months, several government scientists lamented the failure to do more to keep schools open, at least for some age groups.Could it have been different? England - and for that matter the rest of the UK where schools were closed too - was not unique in closing schools. There are questions to answer about prioritisation too. There were periods, for example, when hairdressers and bars were open, but schools were not.Ministers could, of course, could have kept schools open in January 2021 and accepted there was a greater risk of the virus spreading, safe in the knowledge that children were at low risk of severe illness.
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