BORIS JOHNSON: Keeping our schools closed longer than is necessary is intolerable | Daily Mail Online
For many, this was achieved while juggling the pressures of work and childcare, compounded by the mounting toll of the restrictions necessarily imposed by our fight against coronavirus swings and slides locked up, playdates banned, grandparents unable to help.
It was and for many families continues to be a truly Herculean effort of which I will always be in awe. It was also supported by many brilliant teachers providing remote learning for their pupils, the thousands of laptops and tablets we bought and shipped to the children who needed them to access online resources, and the stunning creation of Oak National Academy, which developed an entire online curriculum in just a matter of weeks.
But we are in a different situation now to the one we faced earlier this year.