Teachers' union: Members 'extremely worried' about returning to schools

Josepha Madigan, minister of state for special education and inclusion, with Abbi Homan at Saint Augustine’s School, Blackrock, Dublin, where the minister reviewed its summer programme as part of Summer Provision 2020.  Picture: Maxwells

The biggest secondary teachers’ union is calling on the Government to “step up to the plate” and deliver a competent back-to-school package of measures.

Kieran Christie, general secretary, Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI), said members are “extremely worried” about returning to work. And he said there must be “no compromise on safety”.