now, the sunday telegraph is focusing the view of amanda spielman, the boss of ofsted, which is alsot we cannot furlough our children, that any more delays that are absolutely necessary to the reopening of schools will risk their health and education of a generation. and there are very scary numbers in the story about children who during the first lockdown, in primary schools, who returned to school after home—schooling and had lost all their skills, such as the ability to hold a pencil or hold a knife and fork. and, also, the problems faced at home by people whose parents aren't affluent enough to buy all the tech. people rely on their pa rents the tech. people rely on their parents phones, their pay—as—you—go mobile phones to download lessons, which is obviously not practicable. so, we've gotta huge problem facing gavin williamson and i expect tomorrow that we will see some action on this because it is very clear that members of his own party don't necessarily support the data, including jeremy hunt and bernard jenkins. so i think this will be a story that we will see unfolding tom

but writing in the sunday telegraph, the head of ofsted, amanda spielman, warns time away from the classroomt to the "absolute minimum". our political correspondent chris mason has more. this is brighton, where primary schools were due to reopen this week after the christmas holidays. but now the local authority is advising that they shouldn't, and has asked the education secretary to intervene too. we've written to gavin williamson to ask him to close our primary schools in line with the decision that he's made in london and other areas, but what we've also done is written to schools directly ourselves, and asked them to, or advised them, that we think the right decision is for them to move to remote learning on monday, and only be open for children of key workers and our most vulnerable children as well. and this is birmingham, where the city council says it will support any primary school whose teachers who decide to shift to learning from home — and this morning, local leaders in liverpool are calling for another national lockdown. they argue the current tier system in england isn't work

front pages, starting with, the sunday telegraph leads on comments from ofsted's chief inspector amanda spielmanen cannot be ‘furloughed' for months whilst coronavirus cases subside —— and that time out of classroom should be kept to the "absolute minimum". teaching unions havejoined forces to call for schools to be kept closed to slow the spread of the virus. the sunday express reports on comments from the prime minister — he describes the work on the oxford vaccine as "a triumph of british science" — and believes the uk will defeat covid in 2021. the sunday times leads on analysis, which shows nearly a quarter of people in england live in a constituency with no hospital, gp practice or community building for administering vaccines — as the oxford vaccine roll—out is due to begin on monday. and the mail on sunday reports on comments from england's deputy chief medical officer professor jonathan van tam, who has defended the decision to extend the gap between administering two doses of the vaccine from 3 weeks to 12 weeks — insisting ‘it is the way we save most lives‘ so, let's begin. my my gues

writing in the sunday telegraph newspaper, ofsted's chief inspector amanda spielman says children's livest be put on hold" during the pandemic. our political correspondent, chris mason, has more. this is brighton, where primary schools were due to reopen this week after the christmas holidays. but now the local authority is advising that they shouldn't, and has asked the education secretary to intervene too. we've written to gavin williamson to ask him to close our primary schools in line with the decision that he's made in london and other areas, but what we've also done is written to schools directly ourselves, and asked them to, or advised them, that we think the right decision is for them to move to remote learning on monday, and only be open for children of key workers and our most vulnerable children as well. and this is birmingham, where the city council has said it will support any primary school head teachers who decide to shift to learning from home — and this morning, local leaders in liverpool are calling for another national lockdown. they argue the current tier system in eng