Covid-19: the return to school - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

This week children start to return to school in Scotland, with the rest of the UK due to reopen schools in September.

For most students this is the first time they'll be setting foot inside a school since March - the longest interruption to schooling in living memory.But with the number of coronavirus cases back on the rise, how should we balance the risks of reopening schools, against the risks of keeping them shut?

Contributors:Professor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London.

Professor Jonas Ludviggson, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet, SwedenRussell Viner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics&Child Health and is a scientific adviser to the government as a member of SAGE

Professor Anna Vignoles, University of CambridgeInès Hassan, researcher at the Global Health Governance Programme at the University of Edinburgh

Producers: Kirsteen Knight, Beth Sagar-Fenton and Rosamund JonesStudio manager: Neva Missirian
Editor: Hugh Levinson

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