Chief Medical Officer: “If you keep children out of school, every single one of the children you keep out of school is disadvantaged”
![](https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/185/2021/02/Schools_reopening_8-march-02-02-02-620x349.jpg)
The country’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has said that it is “absolutely universally accepted that there are huge advantages for children to be in school”.