“It’s inconceivable that they would come back without further measures as are already being applied in those schools that are open for key workers,” he said.
Mr Raab refused to give any detail about what form these measures would take.
Rachel Reeves, Laboror shadow cabinet minister, said social distancing in schools would be “really tricky”.
But she went on: “What you’re seeing in places like Denmark for example is that class sizes have had to be reduced so tha t you can have a degree of social distancing in schools.
“For the youngest children that is going to be near impossible, to have that distancing, but if you can reduce the class sizes, if you can have children outside at school as much as possible, I think there are ways to do that. ”
Amateur sport
Mr Raab also said it would be “very difficult” for amateur sport to resume this summer “because of the level and scale of interaction ”. “ I think the professional sport may be different because of the scale of testing that they would be able to introduce, ”he said. “ We do want to look when it is safe and responsible at ways to allow more outdoors activities to take place, but again we have to have the evidence that it is a sure-footed step that does not allow coronavirus to get a grip back on the country. ”
The high street
Senior citizens queue to shop at Sainsbury’s Supermarket on March (Photo: Getty)
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