BCC’s Hannah Essex has written in today’s Times Red Box on the importance of setting out a plan for the safe and swift reopening of schools to ease pressures on working parents.
“Working parents across the country will have felt their hearts sink last week with the prime minister’s announcement that schools will stay shut until at least early March.
Even before this news came out, the main topic of conversation in mums’ WhatsApp groups was how much longer women, already stretched to the limit, could keep on juggling their jobs, parenting and home-schooling responsibilities.”
Continue reading here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-must-do-more-for-working-parents-in-lockdown-ktzhm7kxh