Changes to school rules on Covid welcomed in Shropshire
Government plans to scrap school Covid isolation rules in favour of bringing in daily testing have been welcomed by education chiefs in Shropshire.
The system in England's schools, where groups of pupils have to self-isolate if one tests positive, could be scrapped in the autumn.
Ministers are looking at asking schools to introduce daily testing instead.
During the Covid outbreak many schools across Shropshire have asked pupils to self-isolate if they have potentially been in contact with a positive case.
Just last week, Minsterley Primary School closed after an outbreak of Covid cases and a letter was sent to parents of pupils at Haberdashers' Abraham Darby in Telford asking year eight pupils to self-isolate following a positive case.
The Department for Education said that in order to keep as many children in face-to-face classes as possible, it has written to secondary schools asking them provisionally to prepare for a change after the summer break.
Dr Gill Eatough, chief executive of the Learning Community Trust, which runs a number of schools in the county, said she would welcome the change.
She said: "We need to be able to bring in a system that stops us having to send groups of children home to self-isolate.
"We would welcome that. The issue for us is we go through periods of time where our schools have no cases.
