Unions warn that school safety measures may not be sufficient

Students will not return to schools until at least 11 January as teachers' unions warn that safety measures may not be sufficient. Picture: Ben Birchall

Serious consideration must be given to whether the existing school safety measures are sufficient, given the emergence of the new Covid-19 variant, education unions have warned. 

The decision to extend school holidays until January 11 as part of a return to a full-scale lockdown has been welcomed by the education unions, however.