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Unions slam government's ‘shameful’ end of term power struggle with schools

EDUCATION unions have slammed the Tories’ “shameful” threat of legal action to force a London council to keep its schools open. 

Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe says that he received a directive from the Department for Education (DfE) on Monday that schools be kept fully open until the end of autumn term on Friday.

The south-east London borough had announced on Sunday that primaries, secondaries and colleges were advised to close several days early and move to online teaching because Covid-19 infections in the area have been increasing.

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