of schools in england would probably take place in a "phased manner" and would depend on scientific advice. we can speak to professor steve turner from the royal college of paediatrics and child healthrisks for children. let me ask you first of all, when you hear talk of a phased restoration of education, in—school places, obviously some schools have continued to operate and children have continued to go to school, children of key workers. how do you conceive of working? the million—dollar question. i think that we clearly have to be very pragmatic about this. and know that there is no absolutely right way of doing things and we have learned that over the last six or seven weeks. the end point is going to be that schools will go back so the finer points are how and when. i think everybody is talking about the approach, i suspect head teachers are scratching their heads up and down the country. how they will selflessly children within the context of classes, we have all been there and it's often quite confined. my there and it's often quite confined. my suspicion or my hope is that the pa rent of my suspicion or my hope is that the parent of children who are desperate to get back to

he's the clinical lead in infectious diseases at the royal college of paediatrics and child health. t has been made of the fact that children have been by and large relatively untouched by covid—i9, has that been your experience? most definitely, i think caddell —— children and adults have behaved very differently during this pandemic and i think we need to acknowledge that when we make decisions in terms of coming out of lockdown. and how should that pattern then informed those decisions? well, it is clear that we cannot maintain the status quo and we do need a strategy which the government is working on and is being advised on by sage. but recognising that children have not got on well in generaljoin this pandemic means that we can really think seriously about school reopening being one of the earlier measures we take in terms of reversing lockdown. really, and is that despite the fact that we don't know whether children are spiders of the virus or how far they are spreaders of the virus?|i think that is a really good question. anything we do need to be watched extremely closely an