It was a long time coming, but we welcomed the government’s recent announcement to spend £25m on CO2 monitors for schools and colleges in England for the autumn term.
A more proactive approach, which we and others called for, would have seen these devices put into schools months ago. The government should also have announced extra measures to help improve ventilation over the summer break. But anyway, we now need to make it work.
Rightly, special schools and alternative provision have been prioritised to receive their full allocation first, given their higher-than-average numbers of vulnerable pupils. When all schools can expect their full allocations is as yet another unknown.
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