Join the Tes news team as we discuss suggestions from education secretary Gavin Williamson that bubbles could be lifted before the summer holidays. 

We look at mounting pressure on the government to rethinking bubble rules amid the four-fold rise in the number of pupils forced the self-isolate, as revealed in latest Department for Education (DfE) attendance data.

We also talk about headteachers’ dismay after the government appeared to shift blame on schools for sending too many pupils home, and we look at how some unions are against ending bubbles.

We ask: what does September look like in schools in terms of Covid measures?

We also discuss how a new report from the National Audit Office says the government has “utterly failed” to assess the cost of Covid for schools.

And we look at proposals in a new report by the Headteachers’ Roundtable, which calls for major policy changes post-pandemic.

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