Rachel de Souza

Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, said that she supported Williamson’s plan to formally ban smartphones in schools (Photo: PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Distracting and damaging’ mobile phones could be banned in schools from January Rhona Shennan

School isolation rules in England likely to end in the autumn (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

School isolation rules in England likely to end in the autumn Group Reporter

A review is underway into self-isolation rules for schoolchildren, looking at how testing can be used instead to help keep pupils in schools.

Daily testing could replace self-isolation rules for school bubbles under plans Fiona Thompson

All children in England will be consulted on how the pandemic has affected them (Photo: Shutterstock)

All children in England will be consulted on how the pandemic has affected them Iain Leggat

England’s Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, will call on the Government to make children a priority after the pandemic (Photo: Shutterstock)

Kids must be a priority post-Covid after an 'impossibly damaging' year - what En... Helen Johnson