This has been upsetting me for a long time, the guidance is so unfair. If it's important to shut schools then they should be shut to all but the actual key workers and vulnerable.

I'd like to see the following revision to the key worker guidance regarding children attending school:

1.If there is a non key worker parent at home then that family cannot send their children in to school

2. The keyworker definition needs to be tightened. It is currently far too broad and open to abuse.

The government needs to change the guidance to allow schools a chance to implement it for the purposes that it was actually created. The keep children at home "if you can" statement is leading to higher than 50% attendance in all the schools near me and I hear similar or higher figures from across England.
And many times this includes children at school with a non working parent at home.

Ultimately why should a non key worker have to keep children at home if a non key worker who happens to have a key worker partner doesn't. Especially when that non keyworker is at home and in many cases not working. It makes no sense and is terribly unfair to those children of non key workers who are struggling at home to balance educating their children and carrying out their work.