Public health guidelines to govern the reopening of schools in late August and September will not be published for some time, according to comments made by the Minister for Education in the Dáil.
However, children attending disadvantaged schools who participate in Department of Education summer camps will be required to socially distance. "[This is because] there may be circumstances where schools will have to have the necessary agility to respond quickly to changed circumstances at local or regional level," he told the Dáil.
And the minister said we had to be cognisant of the fact that maintaining physical distancing was not always practical for children who were young or had special educational needs.
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