CYP Now - Coronavirus: School praised over safeguarding plans for closure

A primary school has been praised for drawing up thorough plans to safeguard vulnerable pupils ahead of school closures due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Parklands' head teacher shared the guidelines on social media. Picture: Chris Dyson

Parklands Primary School in Leeds published details of its intention to enact "emergency safeguarding procedures" early this week.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced today (Wednesday) that all schools will close from Friday.

Exceptions will be made for children of key workers and vulnerable children including those in care, children with a social work and children with education, health and care plans.

Chris Dyson, head teacher at the school, shared plans for a possible closure over Twitter.

Here is our @ParklandsLeeds #CrisesPlan in the event of a school closure. Hopefully it won’t come to it. The children will be fed daily and food hampers provided. EVERYCHILD will be spoken to and have work set by their teachers . Together we will be strong pic.twitter.com/ZgOTbWU9tr

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