UPDATED (12/7/20): Are Schools Safe? Health Secretary Shuts Schools in Leicester

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UPDATED (12/7/20): With the news that we reported below that the Government intends to find parents if their children do not go back to school in September, and that 94% did not go back, it is revealing that the Government is coming up with all sorts of "innovations", like "bubbles".

This proves what we have said all along, and what parents know - that it is unsafe, but that the Government want to force children back against their own will and the will of parents.

It is wrong.

So we are offering an alternative for parents to consider - home education. Here is the link to our recent article.

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We listened to Somerset parents on whether they thought schools were safe for their children.

They voted with their feet. We revealed what Somerset County Council did not want parents to know.

As discovered and reported by us, 94% of children did not return to school, despite the Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, wanting them to.

Deputy Leader of Somerset Independents, Denise Wyatt, says:

"The parent rebellion was massive.

We would like to say to all parents, staff and children...

...well done for humiliating the Government that has repeatedly let you down and failed to protect your children and your families."

Somerset Independents has also stood up for you against the County Council, which has just successfully prosecuted Somerset schools in court.

And we will carry on challenging Somerset councils and the Government, where residents ask us to and where we think it is the right thing to do.

But today...

Even the Health Secretary has all but admitted that schools are NOT safe.

He has decided to shut all schools in Leicester's "local lockdown".

Hapless Hancock has repeatedly insisted, as reported in articles on The Daily Telegraph, MSN and Daily Express websites, that schools are safe.

Yet he has been forced to admit that schoolchildren have been infected in Leicester.

And therefore, he has shut the schools.

Yet the Education Secretary has recently insisted that parents will be fined if they do not send their children to school in September.

Andrew Pope, Leader of Somerset Independents, says:

"Somerset Independents thinks that forcing children and parents like this would be wrong. It would also be unsafe.

Do you think your children will be safe in September?

Do you trust the Health Secretary?

Do you trust the Prime Minister?

Do you trust the Government or the Council?

 

Is there anything that you trust them on - the figures, the testing (which failed Leicester), the PPE, the schools, your safety? 

 

Tell us by getting in touch and telling us your views - whatever your views are, we will listen to you."