All schools, colleges and early years settings will begin wider reopening of classrooms to all pupils from Monday, 8 March.

This is an important time for our borough as people increasingly move around, make journeys and interact with people again. The importance of managing this is key to avoid Covid rates rising in the borough.

Lateral flow testing is key to this managed return, and each school and college has a plan in place to test staff and young people three times in the first ten days back before home testing begins.

Young people and their families may be anxious and so the council have produced the following video with members of our youth council and Oldham College students to alleviate some of this concern. Watch the video online here.