Schools 'risk second winter of open windows and freezing temperatures'

Schools have been urged to apply for funding to improve ventilation as soon as possible to ensure they don’t endure a second winter of open windows and freezing temperatures. File picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Schools have been urged to apply for funding to improve ventilation as soon as possible to ensure they don’t endure a second winter of open windows and freezing temperatures.

Simon Jones, a member of the expert group on ventilation which formerly advised the National Public Health Emergency Team, said “time is running out” for schools to collate the information they need to secure funding from the State to make their buildings compliant with the Covid-era world.