According to the National Foundation for Educational Research, heads in England are expecting nearly half (46%) of families to keep their children at home.
It suggests that of the more than 2 million students in reception, year 1 and year 6 classes, about 1 million stayed at home.
It comes amid concerns from experts that children kept in home-schooling could feel isolated from their classmates.
However, due to new social-distancing guidelines in the classroom class sizes have been slashed as only reception, year one and year six were today asked back.
It comes ten weeks on from Boris Johnson's address to the nation on March 23 urging Brits to stay at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Follow our live blog below for all the latest news and updates as schools reopen across the UK.
According to the National Foundation for Educational Research, heads in England are expecting nearly half (46%) of families to keep their children at home.
It suggests that of the more than 2 million students in reception, year 1 and year 6 classes, about 1 million stayed at home.
It comes amid concerns from experts that children kept in home-schooling could feel isolated from their classmates.
However, due to new social-distancing guidelines in the classroom class sizes have been slashed as only reception, year one and year six were today asked back.
It comes ten weeks on from Boris Johnson's address to the nation on March 23 urging Brits to stay at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Follow our live blog below for all the latest news and updates as schools reopen across the UK.
According to the National Foundation for Educational Research, heads in England are expecting nearly half (46%) of families to keep their children at home.
It suggests that of the more than 2 million students in reception, year 1 and year 6 classes, about 1 million stayed at home.
It comes amid concerns from experts that children kept in home-schooling could feel isolated from their classmates.
However, due to new social-distancing guidelines in the classroom class sizes have been slashed as only reception, year one and year six were today asked back.
It comes ten weeks on from Boris Johnson's address to the nation on March 23 urging Brits to stay at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Follow our live blog below for all the latest news and updates as schools reopen across the UK.
According to the National Foundation for Educational Research, heads in England are expecting nearly half (46%) of families to keep their children at home.
It suggests that of the more than 2 million students in reception, year 1 and year 6 classes, about 1 million stayed at home.
It comes amid concerns from experts that children kept in home-schooling could feel isolated from their classmates.
However, due to new social-distancing guidelines in the classroom class sizes have been slashed as only reception, year one and year six were today asked back.
It comes ten weeks on from Boris Johnson's address to the nation on March 23 urging Brits to stay at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Follow our live blog below for all the latest news and updates as schools reopen across the UK.
According to the National Foundation for Educational Research, heads in England are expecting nearly half (46%) of families to keep their children at home.
It suggests that of the more than 2 million students in reception, year 1 and year 6 classes, about 1 million stayed at home.
It comes amid concerns from experts that children kept in home-schooling could feel isolated from their classmates.
However, due to new social-distancing guidelines in the classroom class sizes have been slashed as only reception, year one and year six were today asked back.
It comes ten weeks on from Boris Johnson's address to the nation on March 23 urging Brits to stay at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Follow our live blog below for all the latest news and updates as schools reopen across the UK.
There was just one recorded death of a person with coronavirus in Scotland in the last 24 hours - but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned progress made against COVID-19 was "not irreversible".
Speaking at the Scottish government's daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said the latest figures showed "real progress" in stopping the spread of the disease.
A total of 2,363 patients have died in Scotland after testing positive for COVID-19, up by one from 2,362 on Sunday.
The number of people who have tested positive in Scotland rose by 18 to 15,418.
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NHS England announced 108 new deaths of people who had tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 26,722.
Public Health Wales said a further five people had died after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths in Wales to 1,347.
Northern Ireland recorded one more death of a person who had tested positive, taking its total to 524.
Image:Nicola Sturgeon has warned that the virus has not been completely eliminated
Despite the relatively small increases in deaths and new cases, Ms Sturgeon warned: "The virus has been suppressed, but it has not gone away and it is still extremely dangerous."
Since Friday, people in Scotland from two households have been able to gather outdoors in groups of up to eight, as long as they maintain social distancing.
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Sitting and sunbathing in local parks is now also allowed but, while no legal limit has been placed on how far people will be allowed to travel for recreation, the Scottish government's "strong advice" is to stay within five miles.
On Monday, Ms Sturgeon thanked the "vast majority" of people for following the new measures, but said there were instances of people breaking the rules as she warned lockdown restrictions could be toughened.
There were 797 dispersals by Police Scotland on Saturday alone, five times higher than the figure from the previous Saturday.
Traffic statistics reported at the briefing were also a "cause for concern", the first minister added, with road use on Sunday up by 70% on the previous Sunday and a 60% increase on Saturday from the week before.
Traffic on the A82 near Loch Lomond and on the roads around Glencoe was three times higher on Saturday than it had been the previous Saturday.
"Let me be very blunt here - it's very hard to see how all of that could have been caused by local residents or by people travelling a reasonable distance to meet loved ones," Ms Sturgeon said.
She added: "It's worth being clear, in fact I have a duty to be clear with you, that if there is continued evidence of even a minority not abiding by these guidelines and travelling unnecessarily, if people meet up in larger groups or if they're making journeys which risk spreading this virus, we will have to put these restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.
"We won't hesitate to do that if we think it's necessary for the collective safety and wellbeing of the population."
Ms Sturgeon said it was "not because I want to be imposing these restrictions, but it is because the progress we've made so far in tackling COVID-19 is simply not guaranteed and it is not irreversible".
The latest UK-wide figures from across all settings will be updated at Number 10's daily briefing later on Monday.
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Nicola Sturgeon has warned the Scottish Government will consider changing the law if Scots fail to follow existing lockdown guidelines on travel and meeting others.
Restrictions were eased last week for the first time since March to allow people to meet others from one household outdoors while maintaining social distancing.
But the First Minister said today it was "clear" that some people were ignoring the remaining guidelines - particularly when it came to travelling long distances for recreation or visiting popular beauty spots.
Police Scotland issued 797 dispersal orders across the country on Saturday - five times the number given out the week before - while transport usage was up 60 per cent.
Nicola Sturgeon today thanked the majority of Scots for following lockdown guidance (Image: Getty Images)
The First Minister's plea came as she revealed for the first time that someone close to her had been struck by the virus.
“Until this weekend I didn’t know anybody personally within my own family, friend or close-colleague network - to the best of my knowledge - who had this virus in a significant way,” Sturgeon said.
“That changed this weekend. Why am I telling you that? Because it’s still there. Even with the numbers going down, there are still people being tested positive for this virus.
“It’s ready to pounce, it’s ready to jump across all these bridges that we offer it.
“If we want to stop that we must stick to the guidelines. I’m saying this as a citizen as much as First Minister. Please do that.”
Guidelines issued last week said there was no restriction on how far Scots could travel to meet friends or family - but they also made clear that trips for leisure or exercise should be no more than five miles.
"I know many of you in the last three days have had long-awaited reunions with family, friends and loved ones and I really hope you all enjoyed that," Sturgeon said at her daily media briefing in Edinburgh.
"I also know the vast majority of people stuck to the rules when having those reunions - you stayed outdoors in small groups and stayed two metres away from other households.
"However, it's also clear that over the weekend not everybody stuck to the rules.
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"I'm told by the police that on Saturday alone, there were 797 dispersals - that's people being moved on for not complying with the rules. To give some context, that 797 is five times higher the previous Saturday.
"There were also cases where despite the guidance, people were driving more than five miles to beauty spots, and in some cases people were staying overnight in tents and caravans.
"Some of the early statistics we have from Transport Scotland also give us some cause for concern. Overall transport yesterday was 70% up on the previous Sunday, and transport on Saturday was up 60% on the week before.
"In some places, Loch Lomond and Glencoe for example, the increase was even more dramatic. On Saturday, on the A82 by Loch Lomond, traffic was three times higher than the previous Saturday.
"I'm going to be blunt here - it is very hard to see how all of that could have been caused by local residents or by people travelling a reasonable distance to meet loved ones."
She added: "Last week we deliberately left some flexibility when we changed the lockdown restrictions. We recommended don't travel more than five miles for recreation, but we left some room for some discretion so you can go further to visit family.
"We also strongly recommended when two households meet there should be no more than eight people in a group. But again, we put that into guidance rather than law.
"We do trust - and continue to trust - the majority to keep those groups small and stay within the rules.
"But if there is continued evidence of any a minority not abiding by these guidelines by travelling unnecessarily or making journeys that risk spreading the virus, we will have to put these restrictions on group size and travel distance into law"
