When Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the country’s stay-at-home order, her stated priority was for educational settings to reopen again for all children and young people as quickly as possible. So what evidence has been used to inform the decision of when and how to reopen schools in Scotland? And what lessons have been learned along the way?
A particularly strong theme was the need to use this summer not simply for UK schoolchildren to catch up academically, but to give them a chance to recover in every other way: in relationships, in their wellbeing, and in living life to the full.
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Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionately high impact on the UK’s Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in terms of death and serious illness, there are now widespread concerns about the disproportionately low levels of vaccine uptake among these communities.
