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Herts County Council has come under fire after a leaked email, sent by a headteacher to parents, quoted it giving the instruction ahead of blistering heat this week.
“The expectation is that schools remain open and therefore parents should be sending their children to school.One parent, who wished to remain unnamed, branded the move “unduly harsh” particularly for those with disabled children and said it could result in parents being fined. “The children were kept indoors all day, they were all hot and miserable, there was no air breeze at all, they had no relief from the heat,” she added.
The mum added: “Why is it right that job centres with air conditioning have closed but we keep our children in school to overheat?”
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