Research and analysis

SPI-B: Note on school closures, 17 March 2020

A note on school closures prepared by the scientific pandemic influenza group on behaviours (SPI-B) and modelling (SPI-M) for the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).

• From: Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
• Published: 5 May 2020
• Last updated: 27 January 2022 — See all updates

Documents

School closures: note from SPI-B - 17 March 2020

PDF, 127 KB, 1 page

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email contact@go-science.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

SPI-B: Note on school closures, 17 March 2020

HTML

Details

Comments from SPI-B and SPI-M, on whether the health benefits of school closures could be outweighed by the effects of children being looked after by their grandparents or childminders and/or pupils interacting socially in other locations.

The paper was discussed at SAGE meeting 17 on 18 March 2020.

This evidence was often compiled very rapidly during a fast-moving response and should be viewed in this context. The paper presented here is the best assessment of the evidence at the time of writing, and the conclusions were formed on this basis. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly. Therefore, some of the information in this paper may have been superseded at a later date.

Published 5 May 2020
Last updated 27 January 2022 + show all updates

1. 27 January 2022

   Added HTML for accessibility.

2. 5 May 2020

   First published.