Government ministers are under pressure to explain how they will help students in England through the seven-week closure of schools and universities ordered as part of the latest Covid-19 lockdown.
Michael Gove, Cabinet Office minister, said on Tuesday there was no alternative to taking the decision to close schools until mid-February at least. Lockdown rules take effect on Wednesday.
Mr Gove said it was with “the heaviest of hearts” that the government had closed schools and cancelled GCSEs and A Levels, the key secondary school exams. Downing Street had insisted as recently as Sunday that schools should remain open and that exams would go ahead.
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