KentOnline

bannermobile

News

Sport

Business

What's On

Advertise

Contact

Other KM sites

CORONAVIRUS WATCH KMTV LIVE SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTERS LISTEN TO OUR PODCASTS LISTEN TO KMFM
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE
News

KentOnline Podcast: Academy boss warns government not to send all children back to school too soon

By: Nicola Everett neverett@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 16:26, 25 January 2021

Updated: 16:30, 25 January 2021

The chief executive of an academy trust in Kent says the government needs to listen to scientists before deciding when all children should return to school.

There are calls for ministers to set out a route map of how and when children will go back to class.

Hear from David Whitehead who is the CEO of the Potential in Everyone Academy Trust in Swale.

Read more!

Also in today's podcast, asylum seekers being held at a former army barracks in Kent are to be moved to hotels if they receive a negative Covid test.

We get reaction from the Kent Refugee Action Network.

mpu1

There are calls for people from minority ethnic groups in Kent not to turn down the chance of having the Covid vaccine.

And, the organisers of the Black Deer Festival update us on their plans for the summer after it was confirmed Glastonbury has been cancelled.

Read more!

Read more: All the latest news for Kent

Read more

More by this author

sticky

© KM Group - 2024