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Gavin Williamson discusses Dominic Cummings, school fines and contact tracing | Covid-19

Parents want to know when they can send children back to school. Continued school closures will have a detrimental impact on pupil progress, Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, acknowledged earlier in the lockdown.

Boris Johnson delivered an announcement on Sunday May 10 about phase two of the shutdown, indicating that the return to school would be gradual, rather than a wholesale lifting of the lockdown.

The Education Secretary also defended the PM’s key adviser Dominic Cummings’ lockdown travel.

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