Posted on Monday 1st Jun 2020
An education lawyer has said there were "other options" for getting children back to the classroom and questioned how four and five years can be kept apart ahead of this morning's return to school.
But Graham Jones stopped short of criticising the government's move saying: "I'm not sure any decision would have been 100% right."
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