‘Real Danger’ UK Schools Remain Closed into Summer: Children’s Commissioner

Children are assisted by their mother as they navigate online learning resources during the CCP virus lockdown in Huddersfield, England, on March 23, 2020. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

There is a “real danger” that schools could remain closed into the summer due to a failure of planning, the UK Children’s Commissioner has warned.

“Unfortunately it is a lot easier to close schools than to reopen them,” commissioner Anne Longfield wrote in the Roadmap to Reopening Schools report published on Jan. 26.