The chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon MP, branded the criteria ‘impossible’.
He told Nursery World, 'Not one of the questions asks the most important thing, what about the kids? Younger children have struggled and suffered during lockdown, with millions not learning or having any contact with teachers.
'The teaching unions are saying that everything is impossible, but there is a greater risk to children staying at home due to the impact on their mental health and if children are living in households where there are safeguarding concerns.
'If every workplace had a criteria of 200 plus questions then none would have opened including the supermarkets which have been a lifeline.
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