It comes as Education Secretary Gavin Williamson prepares to replace the Government's bubbles policy with a strict testing regimeMore than half a million schoolchildren have been forced to isolate in one week, new figures show. Around 8.5% of state school pupils did not attend class for Covid-19-related reasons on July 1, up from 5.1% on June 24 and 3.3% on June 17. The figures include 34,000 pupils with a suspected case of coronavirus and 28,000 with a confirmed case of Covid-19. It comes as Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is set to announce that the school bubbles policy, which forces huge chunks of schoolchildren to quarantine when a classmate tests positive, will be scrapped. Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green, said: "This data shows the Conservatives' staggering failure to keep our kids learning.

Source: Daily Mirror July 06, 2021 11:19 UTC