The chief executive of the trust which runs St Dunstan's School in Glastonbury has released plans of how it may be re-opening.

Alun Williams, who is in charge of the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership, has written to parents and carers who will get letters today (May 19) and tomorrow outlining the plans they have for reopening.

Those will include details about risk assessments and planning documents in place that cover many key aspects to ensure safety including social distancing.

Mr Williams said: "St Dunstan's will begin to work with Year 10 from June 1 in small groups, focused initially on those that have struggled with home-learning due to lack of IT, or because they need more personal teacher support."

Meanwhile the multi-academy trust has been criticised in the Times Educational Supplement for an email Mr Williams sent about reopening schools that focuses on its risk of legal action rather than safety.

In the message, Mr Williams tells his heads about two pieces of news that "should give us all comfort".

He writes that lawyers have said that the schools and trust "would not be liable for prosecution if someone contracted the virus while schools were open".

The article can be seen here: the TES website.

Mr Williams told Nub News: "The TES article was rather clumsily written and took the email to head teachers completely out of context.

"The i newspaper covered it in a much more balanced manner. Five staff including two head teachers had expressed concern about possible litigation if coronavirus was thought to be spread within a school between staff and children or children and children or indeed between staff.

"Even yesterday a teaching assistant asked about this and was worried about it. I checked this out with lawyers who confirmed that if staff follow risk assessments and act in a reasonable manner, they should not fear litigation and this should not be a reason to not return to work."

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