PARENTS with conditions making them vulnerable to Covid-19 said today that they are highly concerned about children returning to school this week despite the government insisting that it is safe.

A woman with an immune condition has said she feels like she has “no choice” but to send her daughter back to school or face fines.

Jennifer East, from Clacton-on-Sea, has been shielding with common variable immunodeficiency and feels it is “really not safe” to “open the bubble to a load of schoolchildren” by her 11-year-old daughter returning to the classroom.